Monument record MDO3247 - Enclosure on Bronkham Hill, Winterborne St Martin

Rectangular enclosure on Bronkham Hill, probably prehistoric. Recorded as earthworks by field investigators and also visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs.

Rectangular enclosure on Bronkham Hill, probably prehistoric. {1}.

Fragments of this enclosure are also visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs {2-4}. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 507 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(144) ENCLOSURE, rectangular (SY 68 NW; 62508734), lies on the E. side and near the S. end of a gully 120 yds. N.E. of round barrow Winterborne St. Martin (32) on Bronkham Hill (Group R.6) and at about 550 ft. above O.D. It is defined by scarps on the N. and W., up to 3 ft. high at the N.W. angle, by a vestigial scarp on the S. and by the steep gully side on the E. The interior, about 1/5 acre in area, falls gently N. In the N.W. angle is an apparent hut-circle with an almost level floor about 15 ft. across and sunk some 3 ft. below the scarp which marks it uphill; it has an entrance 6 ft. wide at the S.E.
The enclosure is probably prehistoric. Immediately to the N.E. are fragmentary, very low, rounded lynchets. (R.A.F. V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934: 1066 etc.)'

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-1-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1065-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11925.

<3> 11-6-1978, NMR OS/78080 100-101 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11952.

<4> 29-7-1997, DCC 2297 0259 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11955.

Record last edited

May 22 2014 11:31AM