Monument record MDO8350 - Enclosure at Burton Cross, Wool

A rectangular feature around 40 metres by 30 metres visible on an aerial photograph, and interpreted as a possible ditched enclosure. This feature is thought most likely to be of late Iron Age or Romano-British date, as it coincides with a concentration of surface finds and other features observed during digging of a pipe-trench from Burton Cross to Arish Mell in 1959, and subsequent archaeological investigations.

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1963, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1962, 125-130 (Serial). SDO62.

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.

'(50) Burton Cross (SY 88 NW). Occupation Debris was found in 1959 in laying an effluent pipe-line for the Atomic Energy Authority on a gentle S.-facing slope on Reading Beds about 200 ft. above sea level. … A crop-mark adjoining the latter apparently indicates a rectangular ditched enclosure some 100 ft. by over 120 ft. long cut by the Winfrith Newburgh parish boundary (83728577). Worked flints and sherds, one probably of Iron Age 'A', were also found in the pipe-line trench to W. (83378578). (Dorset Procs. LXXXIV (1962), 125–30; see also Coombe Keynes (21) above.) '

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