Monument record MDO4585 - Enclosure on Pimperne Down, Pimperne

This note appears to refer to the enclosure recorded a little way to the north, centred on grid reference ST 890 096. {1}

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1961, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1960, 82 (Serial). SDO60.

'Pimperne Down; O.S. ref. ST 891093 (centre). Only a fragment now remains of the bank of what must have been a settlement enclosure comparable to others in the Chase. This was exposed by turf-cutters, and revealed a large number of 'pot-boilers' and a handful of sherds, one of which is Romano-British; the others, of coarse reddish-brown ware containing large flint grits, may also be Romano-British, but this is not certain. The most interesting object, however, was a baked clay bead, reddish-brown in colour, and rather roughly made. A large part of the rest of the site lay under arable, but apart from two small Romano-British sherds, this only revealed the usual tell-tale scatter of 'pot-boilers'.'

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Jun 20 2014 1:56PM