Monument record MDO25520 - East of Benecke Wood, linear banks and ditches

(SY 616870) Very slight traces of 'Celtic' field scarps, almost ploughed out, can be seen on the chalk but not on
the gravels of the Bagshot Beds just north of enclosure Portesham 57. <1>

A group of linear banks and ditches of uncertain date and function are visible as cropmarks and low earthworks on aerial photographs <2-6>. They may have some relationship to the prehistoric enclosure (MDO2065) situated just to the south. These features were digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2 (Monograph). SDO136.

<1.1> Royal Air Force, 17-1-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1067-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11909.

<2> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3297-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11895.

<3> 1-2-1968, MAL 68052-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11913.

<4> 25-4-1968, NMR OS/68078 001-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11896.

<5> 14-6-1988, NMR OS/88184 647-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11954.

<6> 12-5-2002, PGA SY6187 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12093.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452585 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 31 2022 8:43AM