Monument record MDO43832 - Iron Age or Romano-British enclosure south east of High Wood, Pamphill

Sub-square ditched enclosure visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs to the south east of High Wood, Pamphill. Part of a wider complex of crop and soil marks of enclosures and ditches extending to the south and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Sub-square ditched enclosure visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs to the south east of High Wood, Pamphill. Part of a wider complex of crop and soil marks of enclosures and ditches extending to the south and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project. (1) The enclosure is 95m by 91m across with gaps on the southern and eastern sides which may be entrances. (2-3)

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 52 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(72) ENCLOSURES AND DITCHES (973031-969024), S.E. of High Wood, probably the remains of an Iron Age or Romano-British settlement, lie ¼ mile E. of Badbury Rings. The remains, occupying a S.E. slope between 175 ft. and 250 ft. above O.D., extend for nearly ½ mile from N.E. to S.W. They are levelled by ploughing, but are seen on air photographs (C.U.A.P., XZ 21-2; AUP 44; AHT 70. N.M.R., ST 9702/2/150-6; ST 9702/3/148-9; ST 9602/1). A roughly rectangular enclosure, some 450 ft. by 400 ft., is oriented N.W.-S.E. and has slightly bowed long sides and an entrance in the S.W. side (Plate 55). Immediately to the W. are a series of smaller rectangular enclosures. To the N. are traces of a curving ditch and to the S.W. are traces of further enclosures and ditches, some of them cut by the Roman road from Badbury Rings to Hamworthy.'

<2> National Monuments Record, 08-MAY-1980, NMR 1762/284 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18079.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 14-JUN-1981, OS/81015 V 138 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18080.

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