Monument record MDO42839 - Possible Iron Age, Romano-British enclosure, Hogg Cliff Hill, Maiden Newton

A slightly irregular sub-rectangular banked enclosure is visible as a cropmark on a 1969 aerial photographs in the area of Hogg Cliff Hill, Maiden Newton. The feature is situated within an Iron Age/Romano-British field system (MDO42838) and may be associated but it potentially overlies part of this and may alternatively comprise of a post medieval extractive pit cut into earlier features. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

A slightly irregular sub-rectangular banked enclosure is visible as a cropmark on a 1969 aerial photographs in the area of Hogg Cliff Hill, Maiden Newton (1). The feature comprises 5-6m wide irregular banks and possibly a slightly hollowed interior. It is around 80m by 65m at its greatest extent.

The feature is situated within an Iron Age/Romano-British field system (MDO42838) and may be associated but it potentially overlies part of this and may alternatively comprise of a post medieval extractive pit cut into earlier features. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The feature is still visible as a cropmark on current Google Earth imagery (2).

<1> Ordnance Survey, 18-APR-69, OS69114/049 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16848.

<2> Google Earth, 16-09-2020, Google Earth imagery 2020 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16840.

Record last edited

Nov 11 2020 3:37PM