Monument record MDO45718 - Enclosure, Gussage St Michael

A subrectangular enclosure visible as a cropmark on air photographs. Located a short distance north east of the "banjo" complex ST 91 SE 213, it also occurs at the southern end of an extensive surface spread of occupation debris (ST 91 SE 219) and is immediately adjacent to and southwest of a series of linear features which also seem to incorporate a further subrectangular enclosure. In 1969, N H Field referred to the excavation of some small test pit in the square earthwork adjoining the aforementioned artefacts scatter. Presumably this is the enclosure being referred to. No finds were made within the enclosure, although material similar to the artefacts present in the surface scatter were found in test pits dug outside the enclosure.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1970, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1969, 193 (Serial). SDO69.

<2> Bowen, H C, 1990, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke (Monograph). SWX800.

<3> Bowen, H C, 1991, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke: Inventory, 27 (Monograph). SDO14864.

<4> Barrett, J, Bradley, R and Green, M, 1991, Landscape, Monuments and Society: the prehistory of Cranborne Chase (Monograph). SDO16633.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1307331 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 23 2023 10:10AM