Monument record MDO4397 - Enclosure, Milborne St Andrew

Cropmarks of a rectilinear ditched enclosure are visible on photographs taken in 1979. The site was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project.

At SY 81439865, the cropmark of a ditch of a possible sub-rectangular enclosure, is visible on air photographs. It measures approximately 34.5 metres square internally, with rounded corners. The ditch overlaps at the north-east angle for about 20 metres as if to allow an entrance way some 6 metres wide. <1>

Inspection not possible because of crops, but nothing visible from a distance. <2.

The rectilinear ditched enclosure was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project. It is 40m across with a north facing multi-ditched entrance.

<1> Attrill, N J, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments NJA, F1 NJA 19-JAN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<1.1> 15-SEP-79, OS 79/109/40-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19607.

<2> Barton, J G, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JGB, F2 JGB 02-JUN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<3> Historic England, National Record of the Historic Environment, 456084 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 6 2026 3:50PM