Monument record MDO3246 - Enclosure on Bronkham Hill, Winterborne St Martin

Remains of irregular earthwork enclosure on parish boundary with Portesham, possibly of prehistoric date. Also visible as an earthwork and cropmarks on aerial phtographs

Enclosure(?) irregular (SY 63308664), spans the parish boundary with Portesham, just below 600 ft above OD on the gravel-capped Bronkham Hill where it begins to dip east and falls sharply North immediately outside the earthwork. Only the North and part of the West side survive, forming an 'angle-ditch'. On the North the bank is downhill 6 ft across and 1 1/2 ft high above the silted ditch, 4 ft across. On the West bank is about 17 ft across, inside and 3 ft high above a ditch of similar width. Round barrow and two solution hollows lie inside this 'angle-ditch' which is probably prehistoric. <2> The remains of the enclosure are as described by RCHM <2> north of the trackway but it is now completely ploughed-out south of the trackway. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <3> This feature is also visible as an earthwork and cropmarks on aerial phtographs <4-6> and was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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Dec 30 2022 3:34PM