Monument record MDO7215 - Woolsbarrow, Bloxworth

A small hill fort consisting of a single bank and ditch around the flat top of a gravel knoll, and enclosing an area of just over two acres. Much of the interior has been disturbed by quarrying. There is an original entrance on the south east side, but it has been damaged by a later trackway. The remains of the Iron Age hillfort described above are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs.

This hill-fort is now heavily covered by scrub and conifers. About 5.0 to 6.0 metres below the plateau top to the hillside has been scarped to form a ditch up to 2.0 metres wide, with a counterscarp bank 3.0 metres wide and 0.8 metres high. This survives around half of the perimeter, the remainder now appearing as a terrace. The `tumuli' shown on the O.S. 25" 1902 but omitted from the 1954 and subsequent editions, are natural gravel knolls of varying shapes and sizes. Revised at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4> A small hill fort consisting of a single bank and ditch around the flat top of a gravel knoll, and enclosing an area of just over two acres. Much of the interior has been disturbed by quarrying (MDO30103). There is an original entrance on the south east side, but it has been damaged by a later trackway. The remains of the Iron Age hillfort described above are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <6-9>. These features were digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

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Mar 8 2023 4:17PM