Monument record MDO45799 - Linear bank and ditch on Tenantry Down, Gussage All Saints

An earthwork on Tenantry Down. Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1954 noted a weak bank with outer ditch running across the mouth of a coomb. To the south, the earthwork terminates abruptly, while to the north it cuts an east-west lynchet, presumably belonging to the field system SU 01 SW 10.

Earthwork on Tenantry Down, 'A' SU 00801224, is a weak bank with outer ditch across the mouth of a coomb. The southern termination is abrupt, but in the north the ditch cuts an east-west 'Celtic' lynchet. To the west of the cut the lynchet is markedly weaker. <1>

[NB the other sites formerly described here have now been recorded separately - see associated monuments] [Note: ie see MDO45661 & MDO45662].

<1> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 07-APR-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<2> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 1094312 (Index). SDO14738.

Object Title: SU 01 SE 11 and 49 (1954). Scope & Content: Index card. Includes profile Antiquity Model: Surveyed.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213826 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 1 2023 4:29PM