Monument record MDO8063 - Earthworks on Worbarrow Tout, Tyneham

Earthworks of uncertain date and function, thought to have been partly reformed into a battery in the eighteenth or nineteenth century.

Settlement on Worbarrow Tout, SY870796. There are signs of a double bank across the neck of the promontory, with an entrance at the south end, and five hut circles in sheltered positions. <1> Earthworks, on Worbarrow Tout (870796), of unknown origin, were recorded in the 18th and 19th centuries but are now partly destroyed. (a) A rampart, on the seaward side of the low isthmus joining the small peninsula to the mainland, survives near the foot of a 14 degree slope as a ditch or berm about 16ft across behind a low downhill bank circular embankment on the summit of the peninsula, about 100 ft. above the sea, was apparently slight and was re- formed and made into a kind of battery in the 18th or early 19th century; it was destroyed in the war of 1939-45. (W. Miles, Deverel Barrow (1826), 35; Hutchins I 619.) <2>

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