Monument record MDO4951 - Enclosure at Hinton Bushes, Tarrant Hinton

A roughly circular enclosure now levelled by cultivation but visible on air photographs as a crop mark about 400 feet in diameter. Probably of Iron Age or Romano-British date.

Additional reference, air photograph transcription (including long, narrow annexe on S side of enclosure) and consideration of comparable enclosures. <2-3>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 100 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(20) ENCLOSURE (91651175), at Hinton Bushes, probably of Iron Age or Romano-British date, lies at 190ft. Above O.D. near the crest of a spur which slopes E. to the Tarrant valley. Now levelled by cultivation, the ditch surrounding the enclosure is visible on air photographs (C.U.A.P., wx 59-61) as a roughly circular crop-mark, about 400ft. in diameter and enclosing an area of 3 acres. On the S., a second ditch runs for a short distance outside the main ditch, which it joins on the S.W.'

<1.1> St Joseph, J K, St Joseph WX 59-61 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18445.

<2> Bowen, H C, 1990, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke, 92 (Monograph). SWX800.

<3> Bowen, H C, 1991, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke: Inventory, 25 (Monograph). SDO14864.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210295 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 3 2022 10:52AM