Monument record MDO2239 - Enclosure on Warren Hill, Puddletown

Cropmarks of a single ditched enclosure of Iron Age or Romano British date. Excavations in 1972 sectioned one of the ditches; pottery sherds, a tegula and animal bones were found.

(SY 76079725) Crop-mark of an indeterminate nature, possibly the site of a single-ditched enclosure. <1> SY 76039726. Situated on the north-facing chalk slope of Warren Hill, a roughly, elliptical ditched enclosure, apparently interrupted by a causeway on its northern arc, was discovered as a cropmark site of air photography taken by J Boyden. A small excavation by Weymouth College in 1972, as part of a study of Iron Age and Romano-British settlement surrounding Dewlish Roman villa, revealed that the silted ditch had a V-shaped profile with flat bottom, but no traces of a bank were seen. Pottery from all levels of the ditch consisted of small, abraded gritty sherds of reddish-brown ware; a piece of abraded tegula from the destruction of the possible bank and ox bones and a tooth from the primary silting. <2> Nothing visible on the ground. <3>

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