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Monument details

Summary

A small circular ditched enclosure is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photography. It encloses an area c.12m across and lies on the crest of a break of slope that is visible running through the field parallel to the River Stour. It appears to have been plough-levelled by the 1960s as aerial photographs of this date show it as a cropmark. The function of the enclosure is unclear but it is likely to be agricultural in origin and medieval or post-medieval in date.

Monument Types

• CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)

Full description

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A small circular enclosure is visible as an earthwork on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photography [1]. The enclosure is ditched, enclosing an area c.12m across, and lies on the crest of a break of slope that is visible running through the field parallel to the River Stour. The enclosure appears to have been plough-levelled by the 1960s as Ordnance Survey vertical aerial photographs of this date show it as a cropmark [2]. The function of the enclosure is unclear but it is likely to be agricultural in origin and medieval or post-medieval in date.

A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [3].

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.

<3> 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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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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