Monument record MDO5868 - Iron Age or Romano-British settlement south east of High Wood, Pamphill

Crop and soil marks of enclosures and ditches covering an area over half a mile long, and cut by the Roman road from Badbury Rings to Hamworthy. Interpreted as a probable Iron Age or Romano-British settlement. Some of these features have been recorded separately in records MDO43833 and MDO43834.

(Centred ST 971027) Enclosures and ditches, probably the remains of an Iron Age or Romano-British settlement, extend from ST 973031 to ST 969024. They have been levelled by ploughing but are visible on air photographs.

A roughly rectangular enclosure, some 450ft by 400ft orientated NW-SE, has slightly bowed long sides and an entrance in the SE. Immediately to the W are a series of smaller rectangular enclosures. to the N are traces of a curving ditch and to the SW are traces of further enclosures and ditches, some of them cut by the Roman Road from Badbury Rings to Hamworthy (RR 4d). <1>

Crop and soil marks of enclosures and ditches covering an area over half a mile long, and cut by the Roman road from Badbury Rings to Hamworthy. Interpreted as a probable Iron Age or Romano-British settlement <1>.

This area was included in the Middle Dorset Stour AIM project and the features mapped and recorded from aerial photographs. Some of these features have been recorded separately in records MDO43833 and MDO43834. <2-4>.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 52 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(72) ENCLOSURES AND DITCHES (973031-969024), S.E. of High Wood, probably the remains of an Iron Age or Romano-British settlement, lie ¼ mile E. of Badbury Rings. The remains, occupying a S.E. slope between 175 ft. and 250 ft. above O.D., extend for nearly ½ mile from N.E. to S.W. They are levelled by ploughing, but are seen on air photographs (C.U.A.P., XZ 21-2; AUP 44; AHT 70. N.M.R., ST 9702/2/150-6; ST 9702/3/148-9; ST 9602/1). A roughly rectangular enclosure, some 450 ft. by 400 ft., is oriented N.W.-S.E. and has slightly bowed long sides and an entrance in the S.W. side (Plate 55). Immediately to the W. are a series of smaller rectangular enclosures. To the N. are traces of a curving ditch and to the S.W. are traces of further enclosures and ditches, some of them cut by the Roman road from Badbury Rings to Hamworthy.'

<1.1> St Joseph, J K, St Joseph XZ 21-2 AUP44 AHT 70 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19366.

<1.2> NMR ST 9702/2/150-6 ST 9702/3/148-9 ST 9602/1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19367.

<2> National Monuments Record, 08-MAY-1980, NMR 1762/284 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18079.

<3> National Monuments Record, 02-AUG-1974, NMR 772/150-156 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18082.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 13-SEP-1982, OS/82203 V 73 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18084.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209566 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 3 2023 12:42PM