Monument record MDO44567 - Possible later prehistoric enclosure, Tarrant Monkton

A ditched sub-oval ditched feature with a ditched and banked linear feature extending southwest from its southwest side is visible as cropmarks to the east of Blandford Camp, Tarrant Monkton, on aerial photographs. The feature may be a late prehistoric enclosure of potentially Iron Age to Roman date, possibly part of a wider area of field systems (MDO44560) and settlement features (MDO44561) to the southeast, including a possible Iron Age banjo enclosure (MDO42508). The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A ditched sub-oval ditched feature with a ditched and banked linear feature extending southwest from its southwest side is visible as cropmarks to the east of Blandford Camp, Tarrant Monkton, on aerial photographs dated 1968 [1]. The feature appears to comprise a sub-oval enclosure measuring approximately 13m by 94m, with possibly a contemporary trackway or field boundary adjacent to the southwest. The feature may be a late prehistoric enclosure of potentially Iron Age to Roman date, possibly part of a wider area of field systems (MDO44560) and settlement features (MDO44561) to the southeast, including a possible Iron Age banjo enclosure (MDO42508). It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> John Boyden, 01-FEB-1969, JRB 9701/23 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18705.

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