Monument record MDO46876 - Enclosure, Charminster

Rectilinear enclosure, of unknown date, seen as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The feature is visible as a partial rectilinear cropmark on aerial photographs. It also potentially conforms with a rectilinear arrangement of linear banks visible on current Environment Agency that appears to be part of a wider later prehistoric field system. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

SY 682 960 (FCE) A rapid examination of air photography suggests the presence of a possible rectilinear enclosure, of unknown date, visible as a cropmark on the valley side, c.700m south of Forston Higher Farm. A possible rectangular enclosure is attached to its northeast corner. <1>

The feature is visible as a partial rectilinear cropmark on aerial photographs. It comprises a slightly trapezoidal ditched enclosure approximately 74m long and between 56m and 76m wide. The west side is broken and might be the site of an entrance. A smaller possible rectilinear enclosure sits within the northwest corner of the feature. The ditched enclosure potentially conforms in part with a rectilinear arrangement of linear banks visible on current Environment Agency, that appears to be part of a wider later prehistoric field system. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

<1> Miller, Andrew, RCHME/EH/HE Aerial Photographers comment AM, 15-FEB-1993 (Verbal communication). SDO17356.

<1.1> National Monuments Record, NMR 4527: 58-60 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20013.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 983952 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<3> Historic England Archive, 01-OCT-2015, HEA 29593/019 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21036.

<4> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

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Nov 25 2024 2:31PM