Monument record MDO3274 - Ring-Ditch with associated settlement, Winterborne St Martin

A ring-ditch, c 6.0m diameter, at SY 6481 8706 was excavted in 1984. The primary ditch-silting does not indicate the former presence of a mound or bank, while a central post-hole and groups of stake-holes in the ditch bottom probably indicate an agricultural use, perhaps a hay-drier. The pottery is consistent with a late Bronze Age or early iron Age date. <1>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1986, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1985, 95-100 (Serial). SDO85.

<1> Woodward, P J, Grieve, D, and Davies, S M, 1986, Winterborne St Martin Well-head. The excavation of a ring-ditch, and associated settlement features on the South Dorset Ridgeway, Winterborne St. Martin, Dorset. (Unpublished document). SDO151.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 868664 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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