Monument record MDO5891 - Enclosure at Abbott Street Copse,Pamphill

A banked sub-oval earthwork with a partial outer ditch is visible in Abbott Street Copse on current Lidar imagery. The earthwork comprises a teardrop-shaped banked enclosure approximately 44m long by up to 33m wide. An outer bank approximately 4.8m wide encloses a slightly lower level interior. A partial ditch up to 3.5m wide is visible on the west, south and east sides of the enclosure, which is cut on its north side by a hollow way (MDO41840) of probable medieval date. The southern section of ditch may be incorporated into a second hollow way running off to the SE. NHRE Hob UID 209498 records the enclosure with one source suggesting the earthworks may be the remains of a medieval motte and bailey castle. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Scrub clearance in Abbot Street Copse has led to the discovery of an earthwork which could be the remains of a motte-and-bailey. [This is apparently the same earthwork as that described by, auth. 3). <4> A banked sub-oval earthwork with a partial outer ditch is visible in Abbott Street Copse on current Ldiar imagery <5> The earthwork comprises a teardrop-shaped banked enclosure approximately 44m long by up to 33m wide. An outer bank approximately 4.8m wide encloses a slightly lower level interior. A partial ditch up to 3.5m wide is visible on the west, south and east sides of the enclosure, which is cut on its north side by a hollow way (MDO41840) of probable medieval date. The southern section of ditch may be incorporated into a second hollow way running off to the SE. NHRE Hob UID 209498 records the enclosure, with one source suggesting the earthworks may be the remains of a medieval motte and bailey castle. The features were digitally plotted from current Lidar imagery by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

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Feb 6 2023 10:36AM