Monument record MDO5869 - Enclosure near Badbury Rings, Pamphill

A rectilinear banked enclosure is visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery to the north of Badbury Rings. The site was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project.

A rectilinear banked enclosure is visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery (2-4) to the north of Badbury Rings. It is located immediately to the west of the Roman Road from Badbury Rings to Kingston Deverill, the Roman road either forming its eastern side or cutting the enclosure (the eastern side not being visible). It is 185m long and is one of a cluster of enclosures visible as cropmarks and soilmarks on aerial photographs, situated near the junction of several Roman roads and thought to be of Iron Age/Romano-British date. The site was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 52 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(73) ENCLOSURES AND DITCHES, probably Iron Age and Romano-British, in the vicinity of the junction of Roman roads just N. of Badbury Rings, are revealed by crop-marks and soil-marks on air photographs (C.U.A.P., CM 60; N.M.R., ST 9603/4, 5). An elongated enclosure of about 5 acres, its N.E. side formed by the Roman road from Hamworthy to Bath, lies at 96450365. From its N.W. corner a straight length of bank and ditch extends N.W., and within the angle of the ditch and enclosure is a smaller irregular enclosure. To the S.E. another ditch (96550357-96690325), roughly parallel with the Hamworthy-Bath road and immediately N.E. of it, extends for some 400 yds. A very small rectangular enclosure, about 70 ft. by 40 ft., bounded by ditches and orientated N.E.-S.W., lies alongside the Roman road from Old Sarum to Dorchester, at 96540336.'

<2> J R Boyden, 01-APR-1966, JRB 10/39 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18091.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 13-SEP-1982, OS/82203 V 126 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18092.

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

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209525 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 12 2024 10:05AM