Monument record MDO26286 - Unidentified earthwork on White Nothe, Chaldon Herring

An earthwork enclosure consisting of a rectangular low bank with no apparent ditch. This feature is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. It is one of a group of similar features located along the cliff here at White Nothe (MDO26285-86 & MDO29330).

This [earthwork] lies about 80 metres south east of Enclosure 1. It consists of a rectangle with straight sides seventeen by ten by metres. The bank is of similar proportions to Enclosure 1 (MDO26285), and also has no apparent ditch. On the northern side there is a gap, perhaps an entrance, opening onto a level area which runs to the edge of the quarry ditch, with which it may have been associated. [1]

A sub-rectangular enclosure, approximately 16.6m x 11.9m, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (2) and was digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset). It is one of a group of similar features located along the cliff here at White Nothe (MDO26285-86 & MDO29330).

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 2008, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 2007-2008, 274 (Serial). SDO12293.

<2> Royal Air Force, 18-NOV-1949, RAF 541/402 F20 3016-17 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12925.

Record last edited

Sep 14 2015 3:06PM