Monument record MDO4399 - Enclosure, Milborne St Andrew

The possible site of a curvilinear ditched enclosure is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The site was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project.

Three light coloured cropmarks (representing banks?) are visible on air photographs in an area of pasture. (1)

'A': SY 80309892. A curvilinear "enclosure" with diameters of approximately 50 by 40 metres and a gap with slight overlapping in the south-west. (2)

Close inspection not possible because of crops, but nothing visible from a distance. (3)

The potential site of a curvilinear ditched enclosure is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1979 (2). The feature is 40m by 46m with a gap to the south. The mark is visible in a pasture field taken in September both of which are unusual conditions for a cropmark to form and therefore a non-archaeological origin is possible. The site was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 2114-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19608.

<2> 15-SEP-79, OS/79/124/335-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19609.

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 02-JUN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

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