Monument record MDO8793 - Circular earthworks, Sopley Common, Hurn

Groups of small circular earthworks diameter 12 - 26, height 6 ins (about), with internal ditches. Generally found on sandy commons. Heywood Sumner thought they might be old bee gardens. (14 in this group). (See SZ 19 NW 10 where a similar earthwork was excavated, and showed bank with a small inner ditch and no dating material). <1>

Area covered by thick heather, bracken and war-time defences. None of the earthworks were located. <2>

See also SZ 19 NW 10, 13, 14, 43 for similar sites. (For results and discussion of the excavation of one of these earthworks, see SZ 19 NW 43.) <3>

<1> Calkin, J B, 1949, Annotated Record Map Corr. 6 (J B Calkin 1949) (Map). SWX2587.

<2> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 27-NOV-51 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<3> Allanson, Christopher David, Field Investigators Comments CDA, R2 CDA 12-NOV-81 (Verbal communication). SDO17894.

<4> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BUT01 (Index). SDO14738.

Butcher, S A: Nornour, Isles of Scilly. A large collection of original and copied archive relating, on the whole, to excavations at the site of Nornour between 1969 and 1973. There are, however, also references to a number of other sites on the Scilly isles as well as sites in Cornwall, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Nottinghamshire. See also the Dudley archive (615559) for information on Nornour.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 458411 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

(Area SZ 128973 Groups of small circular earthworks diameter 12' - 26', height 6 ins (about), with internal ditches. Generally found on sandy commons. Heywood Sumner thought they might be old bee gardens. (14 in this group).

(See SZ 19 NW 10 where a similar earthwork was excavated, and shewed bank with a small inner ditch and no dating material). (1)

Area covered by thick heather, bracken and war-time defences. None of the earthworks were located. (2)

( 1) Annotated Record Map Corr 6" (J B Calkin 1949)
( 2) Field Investigators Comments F1 FDC 27-NOV-51

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