Monument record MDO4400 - Enclosure, Milborne St Andrew

The possible site of an oval ditched enclosure is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The site was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project.

Three light coloured cropmarks (representing banks?) are visible on air photographs in an area of pasture. (1)

'B': SY 80529886. An oval cropmark approximately 40 by 30 metres. <2>

Close inspection not possible because of crops, but nothing visible from a distance. <3>

The potential site of an oval ditched enclosure, 37m by 32m, is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1979 (1). The mark is visible in a pasture field taken in September both of which are unusual conditions for a cropmark to form and therefore a non-archaeological origin is possible. The site was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project.

<1> 15-SEP-79, OS/79/124/335-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19609.

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 2114-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19608.

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 02-JUN-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456081 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jul 19 2024 11:01AM