Monument record MDO43835 - Undated trackway or linear boundary running east-west to the south of High Wood, Pamphill

An undated trackway or linear boundary is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs running roughly west-east for approximately 750m to the south of High Wood, Pamphill. At its western end it forms part of a wider complex of crop and soil marks of enclosures and ditches covering an area over half a mile long, and cut by the Roman road from Badbury Rings to Hamworthy (MDO5868). The feature was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

An undated trackway or linear boundary is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (2) running roughly west-east intermittently for approximately 750m to the south of High Wood, Pamphill. In places it appears as a double ditched feature. At its western end it forms part of a wider complex of crop and soil marks of enclosures and ditches covering an area over half a mile long, and cut by the Roman road from Badbury Rings to Hamworthy (MDO5868). The feature was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<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.

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