Monument record MDO7323 - Mound on Smedmore Hill. Church Knowle

SY 93147957. A mound on the south edge of the settlement area on Smedmore Hill (see SY 97 NW 21), and possibly associated with it, is 22 feet long southwest-northeast by 18ft. wide by 1 foot high. It appears to consist of limestone rubble. <2>

SY 931796. Settlement on Smedmore Hill. Scheduled. The scheduled area also includes this mound which may be connected with the
Iron Age/Romano British settlement. <1> <3>

A turf covered mound 0.3m high and now 5m in diameter. The south side of the scheduled area has been fenced, and this crosses the mound, the SW end of which has now been curtailed by ploughing in the adjacent field. Surveyed at 1:2500 on OS plan. <5>

<1> Department of the Environment, Department of the Environment (Inspector of Ancient Monuments) Record Form, 20.1.69 (Index). SDO17344.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 481 (Monograph). SDO149.

Mound on south edge of settlement area on Smedmore Hill. Length 22 ft, SW-NE., width 18ft., height 1 ft. Apparently consists of limestone rubble

<3> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 76 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<4> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 233 (Index). SDO147.

'Site lies in a regularly ploughed field. 7/7/D.'

<5> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 24-APR-86 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456572 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2023 7:21PM