Monument record MDO4418 - Linear boundary, Milborne St Andrew

A linear ditched feature is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs running for over 700m in a SW-NE direction. It is considered likely to be that previously described as a Bronze Age boundary (L2). The site was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project.

A linear ditched feature is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs running for over 700m in a SW-NE direction (2-3). It is considered likely to be that previously described as a Bronze Age boundary (L2). It runs parallel to and north of the features described in MDO4419. The site was digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project.

<1> Richards, J, 1992, Watching brief and excavation at Milborne St Andrew, Dorset, L2 (Unpublished document). SDO12395.

‘Three linear features were recorded (Fig. 2, L1-3). L1 runs north from the northern rampart of Weatherby Castle for a distance of 300m before merging with a modern field boundary. The feature appears to be a ditch and makes two “dog-leg” runs suggesting that the linear may be bounding a “Celtic” field system. L2 is visible for a total distance of 450m and could be an extension of L1.
L3 is 150m south of L2 and visible for a total length of 250m. This feature comprises two parallel elements, the southernmost being the strongest, and probably representing a ditch. The slighter mark, c.5m to the north, may prove to be a palisade trench, a feature which can be paralleled on the Quarley linear complex in Hampshire.
There are extensive traces of “open” settlement-like features between L2 and L3 (Fig. 2, “S”).’

<2> J R Boyden, 08-JUL-1976, JRB 3305/11 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20758.

<3> National Maritime Museum, 27-AUG-1998, NMR 18142/11 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20788.

Record last edited

Jul 26 2024 3:38PM