Monument record MDO40368 - Prehistoric ring ditch, High Lea Farm, Hinton Martell

A sub-circular enclosure is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1989 to the south of High Lea Farm, Hinton Martell. It is 25m across and on its southern and eastern sides appears to be constructed of a series of pits or an interrupted ditch. It is considered likely to be of prehistoric origin and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

SU 0004 0500 (FCE) A rapid examination of air photography <1> suggests the presence of a circular feature in the form of an interrupted ditch enclosing a possible ring ditch, possibly of Prehistoric or Roman date, visible as cropmarks. <2>

A sub-circular enclosure is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1989 to the south of High Lea Farm, Hinton Martell <1>. It is 25m across and on its southern and eastern sides appears to be constructed of a series of pits or an interrupted ditch. It is considered likely to be of prehistoric origin and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

National Monuments Record, NMR 4437: 08-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18670.

<1> National Monuments Record, 11-JUL-1989, NMR 4527/13-14 (NMR SU0005/14-15) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15788.

<2> Miller, Andrew, 1993, RCHME: AP Primary Recording Project (Unpublished document). SWX1708.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 983770 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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