Monument record MDO5910 - Later prehistoric linear earthwork, Pamphill

A linear earthwork comprising a central bank with flanking ditches is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs running NW-SE for 295m to the north of Badbury Rings. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project.

(From ST 96420374 to ST 96130395) Bank. No ditches visible. <1>

This bank is no longer visible on the ground and seems to have been ploughed out. A slight bump in the hedge where it crosses, is the sole indication of its former existence.The area within which the site falls is now under crops. <2>

A linear earthwork comprising a central bank with flanking ditches is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <3-4> running NW-SE for 295m to the north of Badbury Rings. The feature appears to abut the northeast corner of the enclosure described in MDO5869 and is considered likely to be a linear boundary or trackway of later prehistoric date. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project.

<1> Crawford, O G S, Annotated record map 6 inch (Map). SWX7265.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 26-MAR-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Royal Air Force, 28-MAY-1947, RAF CPE/UK/2102 RS 4249 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18090.

<4> J R Boyden, 01-APR-1966, JRB 10/39 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18091.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209521 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 8 2023 7:01PM