Monument record MDO5968 - Ring ditch near Pound Cottage, Morgan's Lane, Pentridge

A circular cropmark seen in 1976 and interpreted as a ring-ditch, the probable remains of a Bronze Age round barrow. One of a line of four ring-ditches.

A possible ring ditch visible as a cropmark. If the identification is correct, the ring ditch forms part of a line of five possible plough-levelled round barrows located just east of the Dorset Cursus (Linear 41) and immediately north of the village of Pentridge. The site was noted rather uncertainly by Hoade in 1975. RCHME were also uncertain, noting the site but not numbering it in the Bokerley Dyke gazetteer (Bowen 1991). Note also that the latter soource erroneously describes the linear group as comprising Pentridge 38 to 41. In fact, it comprises Pentridge 27, 28, 38 and 39 (see SU 01 NW 77 and associated monuments). <4>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1976, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1975, 48-49 (Serial). SDO75.

FOOTNOTE 'In March 1976 the farmer reported yet another circle in the triangular field west of Morgan's Lane, approximately 40 yards from the hedge and in line with the other three ring-ditches.'

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

<3> Bowen, H C, 1991, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke: Inventory, 8 (Monograph). SDO14864.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1313646 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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