Monument record MDO5023 - Linear earthwork, south of Buzbury Rings, Tarrant Keyneston

A linear earthwork runs southwest from Buzbury Rings along the crest of a broad spur and obliquely down its south side. It comprises a ditch with banks on either side but is largely flattened by ploughing. Air photographs suggest that it is contemporary with or earlier than 'Celtic' fields in the area. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water. The linear earthwork is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project.

A linear earthwork, some 600 yds long, runs SW from Buzbury Rings along the crest of a broad spur and obliquely down its S side to ST 91490532. It now is much ploughed, but formerly, where best preserved, it comprised a ditch 35 ft wide and 2 ft deep, with traces of low banks on either side. Near Buzbury Rings the earthwork divides into two branches which appear to cut the linear earthwork (ST 90 NW 14) and which are probably due to its use as a track. Air photographs suggest that it is contemporary with or earlier than 'Celtic' fields in the area, but the remains are too much damaged for the relationship to be certain. <2> Air photographs show that the earthwork continues from ST 91460533 to ST 91340507. A rapid examination of air photography suggests that although the earthwork is a single ditch just south of Buzbury Rings, further south, it once more divides into two ditches with traces of external banks. <4> A linear earthwork runs southwest from Buzbury Rings along the crest of a broad spur and obliquely down its south side. It comprises a ditch with banks on either side but is largely flattened by ploughing. Air photographs suggest that it is contemporary with or earlier than 'Celtic' fields in the area. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water. The linear earthwork is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery <3, 5, 6>. It comprises an inner ditch and outer banks and extends for just under 750m on a southwest -northeast alignment, heading southwest from the southwest side of Buzbury Rings (MDO5018). The earthwork forks at its northeast end, to head north and east, skirting the outer edge of Buzbury Rings. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project.

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Jan 24 2023 6:53AM