Monument record MDO4909 - Enclosure, Tarrant Gunville

(ST 91651425) Possible enclosure on Dungrove Hill, visible only on air photographs. The feature is roughly circular and about 200 feet in diameter. A narrow funnelled entrance leads into it on the south east. <1>

There is no visible surface indication of the possible enclosure on Dungrove Hill. The site falls in arable farmland, on a gentle south west facing slope of a small spur at 400 ft OD. <2>

The site is possibly classifiable as a banjo enclosure [airphotograph transcription plan and consideration of comparable enclosures]. <3-4<

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 96 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(35) ENCLOSURE (91651425), on Dungrove Hill, at about 390ft. Above O.D. and on a S.W. slope at the end of a spur, is visible only on air photographs (N.M.R., ST 9114/1-2). The feature is roughly circular and about 200ft. in diameter. A narrow funnelled entrance leads into it on S.E.'

<2> Stone, J W, Field Investigators Comments JWS, F1 JWS 26-JAN-78 (Unpublished document). SDO11902.

<3> Bowen, H C, 1990, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke, 93 (Monograph). SWX800.

<4> Bowen, H C, 1991, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke: Inventory, 25 (Monograph). SDO14864.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/097 RCHME Inventory: Dorset IV (North) (Unpublished document). SDO17498.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210248 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 6 2023 4:23PM