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MONUMENT NO. 206924

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Prehistoric enclosure of possible Bronze Age or Iron Age Date. This concists of a sub rectangular or D shaped enclosure. The monument survives as an bank and outer ditch enclosing an area of 0.5ha. Scheduled.

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(ST 82123593) Earthwork (GT). (1)

An irregular oval earthwork, with outer ditch and a slight additional
ditch on the east side visible on air-photographs and confirmed by
ground inspection. Colt Hoare stated that there was an entrance on
the east. MOW records state that there is an entrance causeway on NE.
He dug into it and turned up black earth and 'rude British' potsherds.It is visible on APs. (2-5)

The earthwork is of irregular 'D' shape and consists of a bank, now
almost completely destroyed, and outer ditch enclosing an area of
about 70 x 80 metres. There is an entrance in the E with a
counterscarp to the ditch extending for about 40 metres southwards.
Around this side, opposite the entrance, and between 20 and 50 metres
from the main enclosure is a curvilinear outer-work of bank and
ditch about 180m long. There are no apparently original breaks in
this feature nor does it appear to have extended further in either
direction.

Possibly BA, certainly pre-Roman. Divorced Survey (1:2500) reduced
from RCHM survey at 1:500. (6)

This earthwork is generally as described by F1; the ditch measures
2.8m wide and 0.6m deep, and the bank, where extant, 2.5m wide and
0.2m high. There is an inturn, 4.0m wide and 0.2m deep, to the ditch
on the southwest. The interior is level.

The outer-work has been reduced by ploughing, and although clearly
visible as a crop-mark on OS air photographs (a), it is now barely
discernible on the ground.

1:2500 divorced survey revised on Permatrace. (7)

Scheduled. (8)

Surveyed by the RCHM. (9)

SOURCE TEXT

( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1962

( 2) edited by R B Pugh and Elizabeth Crittall 1957 A history of Wiltshire: volume 1, part 1

The Victoria history of the counties of England (L V Grinsell) Page(s)267

( 3) General reference

Ancient History of South Wilts 1812 (R C Hoare) Page(s)47

( 4) General reference

APs CPE/UK1821/4336-7 4.11.1946

( 5) General reference

MOW RF 414

( 6) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ANK 03-NOV-70

( 7a) General reference

APs (OS 76/029/080-1)

( 7) Field Investigators Comments

F2 CC 17-APR-78

( 8) Scheduled Monument Notification

23-Feb-1998

( 9) General reference

RCHME: South Wilts Project

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