Monument record MDO8065 - Earthworks, Worbarrow Tout

Settlement on Worbarrow Tout, SY870796. There are signs of a double bank across the neck of the promontory, with an entrance at the south end, and five hut circles in sheltered positions. (1) Earthworks, on Worbarrow Tout (870796), of unknown origin, were recorded in the 18th and 19th centuries but are now partly destroyed. (a) A rampart, on the seaward side of the low isthmus joining the small peninsula to the mainland, survives near the foot of a 14 degree slope as a ditch or berm about 16ft across behind a low downhill bank circular embankment on the summit of the peninsula, about 100 ft. above the sea, was apparently slight and was re- formed and made into a kind of battery in the 18th or early 19th century; it was destroyed in the war of 1939-45. (W. Miles, Deverel Barrow (1826), 35; Hutchins I 619.) (2) RELATED FEATURES)

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3 (Monograph). SDO150.

<1> Plybus, B, 1974, Oral: B Pybus, Glebe Garage, Sherfield English. 10.1.74 (Verbal communication). SWX2509.

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