Thesaurus Term/Concept: BANJO ENCLOSURE

Identifier 68979
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note A monument consisting of a small (generally less than 100m diameter) subcircular enclosure with a narrow approach way consisting of parallel ditches (thus banjo shaped). Believed to be associated with stock management in the Later Prehistoric period.

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Instances/Examples (16)

Context Record
Monument Type MDO45144 Banjo enclosure and circular enclosure, Sixpenny Handley (Monument)
Monument Type MDO40091 Banjo enclosure and settlement, Sixpenny Handley (Monument)
Monument Type MDO32395 Banjo enclosure NNE of Gussage All Saints, Gussage All Saints (Monument)
Monument Type MDO40566 Bronze Age barrow, Holfleet Cottage, Burton (Monument)
Monument Type MDO5662 Double banjo enclosure, Gussage St Michael (Monument)
Monument Type MDO4952 Enclosure on South Tarrant Hinton Down, Tarrant Hinton (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6059 Enclosure on Woodcutts Common, Sixpenny Handley (Monument)
Monument Type MDO42508 Enclosure south of Cuckoo Clump, Monkton Down, Tarrant Monkton (Monument)
Monument Type MDO4909 Enclosure, Tarrant Gunville (Monument)
Monument Type MDO5606 Iron Age and Romano British Settlement on Gussage Hill, Gussage St Michael (Monument)
Monument Type MDO5544 Iron Age settlement, Gussage All Saints (Monument)
Monument Type MDO4947 Iron Age/Romano-British settlement south of Hinton Bushes, Tarrant Hinton (Monument)
Monument Type MDO4949 Iron Age/Romano-British settlement, Tarrant Hinton and Chettle (Monument)
Monument Type MDO5663 Late Iron Age and Roman finds from an enclosure, Gussage St Michael (Monument)
Monument Type MDO43790 Prehistoric enclosure, Gillingham (Monument)
Monument Type MDO37315 Prehistoric enclosures, Winterborne Kingston (Monument)