Monument record MDO40064 - Late Prehistoric boundary or trackway, Knowlton, Woodlands

A banked earthwork on the northwest edge of the Knowlton Barrow Group is visible on current Lidar imagery. The earthwork is aligned north to south and leads towards the north side of the North Circle Henge. The feature may represent a contemporary boundary or trackway, although a later origin is also possible. The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A banked earthwork on the northwest edge of the Knowlton Barrow Group is visible on current Lidar imagery (1).

The earthwork is aligned north to south and leads towards and abutting the north side of the North Circle Henge (MDO6417). The feature may represent a contemporary earthwork, perhaps a boundary bank or trackway, although a later date is also possible. A ditched linear is visible as a cropmark running broadly along the top of this earthwork; this may be part of a later prehistoric or Romano-British field system (MDO40066) or historic trackway (see MDO40065). This suggests re-use of an earlier boundary, indicating that the earthwork may pre-date the Iron Age. It is possible the earthwork represents some kind of processional approach to the North Circle Henge.

The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

Record last edited

Sep 12 2024 10:34AM