Monument record MDO47587 - Circular earthwork on Hambledon Hill, Child Okeford

Well preserved circular earthwork surrounding the site of an early Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar. Immediately adjacent to the best preserved Bronze Age barrow within the Iron Age hillfort on Hambledon Hill (ST 81 SW 10) lies a very slight annular earthwork 7.5 metres in diameter surrounding a circular mound 0.2 metres high. The earthwork corresponds to the position of an Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar shown on the Ordnance Survey first and second edition 25 inch maps.

(ST 8452 1239) Between late May and late August 1996 the Cambridge and Exeter offices of RCHME carried out an earthwork survey and aerial photographic interpretation of the complex of monuments on Hambledon Hill as part of the project to record Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic period.

Immediately adjacent to the best preserved Bronze Age barrow within the Iron Age hillfort lies a very slight annular earthwork 7.5m in diameter surrounding a circular mound 0.2m high. The earthwork corresponds to the position of an Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar shown on First and Second Edition 25-inch maps.

For further details, see RCHME Level 3 client report and plan surveyed at 1:1000 scale, held in Archive. <1>

<1> RCHME: Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic (Monograph). SWX1665.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206242 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 21 2023 9:39AM