Monument record MDO5871 - Roman enclosure near Badbury Rings, Pamphill

A small rectilinear ditched enclosure is visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs on the north side of the Roman Road to Dorchester to the north of Badbury Rings. The site was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project.

A small rectilinear ditched enclosure is visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs on the north side of the Roman Road to Dorchester to the north of Badbury Rings (2). The enclosure is 19m long, 12m wide and possibly open on its eastern side. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project.

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

'(73) ENCLOSURES AND DITCHES, probably Iron Age and Romano-British, in the vicinity of the junction of Roman roads just N. of Badbury Rings, are revealed by crop-marks and soil-marks on air photographs (C.U.A.P., CM 60; N.M.R., ST 9603/4, 5). An elongated enclosure of about 5 acres, its N.E. side formed by the Roman road from Hamworthy to Bath, lies at 96450365. From its N.W. corner a straight length of bank and ditch extends N.W., and within the angle of the ditch and enclosure is a smaller irregular enclosure. To the S.E. another ditch (96550357-96690325), roughly parallel with the Hamworthy-Bath road and immediately N.E. of it, extends for some 400 yds. A very small rectangular enclosure, about 70 ft. by 40 ft., bounded by ditches and orientated N.E.-S.W., lies alongside the Roman road from Old Sarum to Dorchester, at 96540336.'

<2> National Monuments Record, 21-APR-1976, NMR 925/406-416 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18094.

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