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Monument details

Summary

A group of earthworks, consisting of two small circular enclosures with a short bank running between them, are visible in the corner of a field on 1940s aerial photographs. They appear to have been plough-levelled by the 1960s as aerial photographs of this date show them as cropmarks. The function of these features is unclear but it is likely that they are agricultural and related to the post-medieval field layout shown on historic Ordnance Survey mapping.

Monument Types

• BANK (EARTHWORK) (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
• CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

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A group of earthworks are visible in the corner of a field on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. The features are composed of two small circular enclosures with a short bank running between them. The second, westernmost, enclosure lies 20m to the NW and is defined by a 4m wide bank enclosing a roughly circular area measuring 9m across. The easternmost enclosure is defined by a 3m wide ditch enclosing a circular area measuring 9m across. Neither enclosure has any clear entrance gap. The bank runs roughly perpendicularly between the two enclosures, aligned SSE-NNW, for 40m then turns through 90 degrees and runs westwards, aligned WSW-ENE, for a further 45m before petering out. The features appear to have been plough-levelled by the 1960s as Ordnance Survey vertical aerial photographs of this date show them as cropmarks [2]. A similar circular enclosure (MWX43524) was recorded 450m NNE of this group.

The function of these features is unclear but it is likely that they are agricultural and related to the post-medieval field layout shown on historic Ordnance Survey mapping [3].

A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [4].

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1858-73, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897 (Map). SWX11831.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.

<4> Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE25954.

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