Monument record TR 35 SW 137 - Ten ring ditches & rectangular & oval enclosures

TR 30505252. Ten ring ditches, rectangular and oval enclosures, west of the Dover Road. Possible Barrow Cemetery. (1)

A group of at least seven circular and sub-circular ditched enclosures ranging in size from 4m to 14m across and are considered to be plough-levelled remains of a prehistoric hut circle settlement. The largest enclosure lies at TR30535235, its outer ditch is 2m wide, with the remains of a second ditch or palisade trench, approxiamately 0.5m wide lying 2m inside the first. Immediately to the south of this enclosure at TR30535234 is a group of at least four overlaping sub-circular enclousres 6-9m across, the largets of which also appears to have an internal palisade. Two ring ditches 5m across, lies at TR30555242 it is the northern-most enclosure of this group and a small gap in its north-west side may represent the position of an entrance. (3)

<1> AP's NMR 332 (OS Card Reference). SKE34327.

<2> KARU Record Card DV 487 (OS Card Reference). SKE45557.

<3> National Monuments Record, 1997, Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic: Possible Neolithic Causewayed Enclosures (Unpublished document). SKE6569.