Monument record MDO4401 - 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>

'C': SY 80589886. Circular, and about 27 metres in diameter; much of the south-east quadrant is obscured by ground disturbance at a field gateway. Possibly the result of agricultural activity although it is difficult to account for the marks in this context. Nothing is visible on the RAF Aps. (See 1:2500 sketch plan). <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 (1). The feature sub-circular, 25m across, and incomplete on its south east side. 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> 15-SEP-79, OS/79/124/335-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19609.

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 2114-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19608.

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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 02-JUN-81 (Unpublished document).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

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456081 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jul 19 2024 11:02AM