Monument record MDO47182 - Enclosure, Dewlish

Cropmarks of an Iron Age or Romano-British enclosure with finds of Iron Age pottery.

(SY 73719848) An Iron Age/Romano-British enclosure on Dole's Hill is now the nearest recognisable walled or banked enclosure to the castel' which is mentioned in Saxon charter. <1>

On the summit of a ridge at SY 73729848 is a right-angled ploughed down bank, 8.0 metres wide and 0.3 metres high, which resembles a lynchet corner. The sides are approximately 40.0 metres long, fading out to west and north. A single very small sherd of probable I.A. pottery was found near the bank. No conclusion can be reached as to the nature and date of the feature from the visible remains. No survey made on M.S.D. <2>

A rapid examination of air photography shows the enclosure as a bank (possibly with external banks) on top of Dole's Hill. <3>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 331-2 (Monograph). SDO136.

<1.1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 3363-64 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20005.

<2> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 18-NOV-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<3> Miller, Andrew, 1993, RCHME: AP Primary Recording Project, 23-FEB-1993 (Unpublished document). SWX1708.

<3.1> Boyden, J R, JRB 3424: 11 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20168.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454795 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Sep 25 2023 5:32PM