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MONUMENT NO. 452151

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A penannular earthwork enclosure closely associated with the Lanceborough group of barrows (SY 68 NE 26 and associated monuments) located to the north of Maiden Castle (SY 68 NE 7 and associated monuments). In 1955 the Ordnance Survey described it as a grass-coverred horse-shoe shaped earthwork with an opening 5 metres wide at the eastern end. It featured a spread bank circa 9 metres wide and up to 0.6 metres high, enclosing an area 27 metres by 31 metres. At the western end are two rather angular corners. There is no sign of an internal or external ditch. Grinsell regarded it as a possible pond barrow, listing it as his Winterborne Monkton 1a, though he felt that on balance it probably wasn't a barrow at all. RCHME clearly felt it wasn't a barrow, listing it merely as an enclosure. It has, nonetheless, been scheduled as a "fancy barrow". The site has also been described as "hengiform" (Woodward 1991). Some information on this site has been included by Ordnance Survey field investigators in SY 68 NE 26.

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Enclosure, horseshoe-shaped (SY 66658920) associated
with Lanceborough Group of barrows (SY 68 NE 26). It measures
overall about 150 ft. east to west and about 93 ft. north to south.
The bank, apparently of chalk rubble, is broken by an entrance on the
east. There is no sign of an external ditch but the site has been
heavily ploughed. (1)
Probably not a barrow, although possibly related to pond barrows. (2)

Survives as a ploughed down horse-shoe-shaped bank 9.0m in width
and 0.3m in height.

Resurveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. (3)

SY 667893. Group of round barrows N of Maiden Castle. Scheduled.
(This inclosure is included in the above scheduling description).
(4 - 5)

SOURCE TEXT

( 1) Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) 1970 An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset. Volume two : south-east [in three parts]

Page(s)507

( 2) by L V Grinsell 1959 Dorset barrows

Page(s)150, 173

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 JGB 12-SEP-80

( 4) Scheduled Monument Notification

Dept. Of Environment - Ancient Monuments of England 2 1978 73

( 5) Scheduled Monument Notification

Dept Of Environment (IAM) Record Form Undated

(6) Scheduled Monument Notification

English Heritage Schedule Amendment 11-JUL-1999

(7) Peter J Woodward 1991 The South Dorset Ridgeway : survey and excavations 1977-84

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society monograph seriesNo.1 (1982) - no.8 Page(s)10

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