Monument record MDO309 - Chalbury, Bincombe

Earthwork remains of an Iron Age hillfort with evidence for earlier Late Bronze Age occupation, and possible later Roman settlement. Chalbury is a contour hillfort with evidence for earlier Late Bronze Age occupation, and possible later Roman settlement. The earthworks consist of a single rampart and ditch, with one original entrance at the south eastern end of the hillfort. Circular depressions visible in the interior may be the sites of storage pits.

Chalbury (name confirmed): under permanent pasture and in good state of preservation. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on MSD (from RCHM plan). <3> Chalbury is a contour hillfort with evidence for earlier Late Bronze Age occupation, and possible later Roman settlement. It has a single rampart and external ditch the former augmented by an interior quarry ditch. There is one original entrance at the south east. A number of circular depressions up to about 9m across may be the sites of original storage pits. The earthwork remains of the hillfort were digitally plotted from aerial photographs and LiDAR imagery <4-6> during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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Nov 16 2023 4:38PM