Thesaurus Term/Concept: BANJO ENCLOSURE

Identifier 68979
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note A monument consisting of a small (generally less than 100m diameter) subcircular enclosure with a narrow approach way consisting of parallel ditches (thus banjo shaped). Believed to be associated with stock management in the Later Prehistoric period.

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Instances/Examples (6)

Context Record
Monument Type MKE7865 Bronze Age and Iron Age cropmark complex, Minster (Monument)
Monument Type MKE40211 Circular and sub-circular magnetometry anomalies in Sevenoaks Quarry (Monument)
Monument Type MKE447 Cropmarks of a banjo enclosure in a field to the west of Salt Farm, Fawkham (Monument)
Monument Type MKE6254 Curvilinear enclosure with trackways, Adisham (Monument)
Monument Type MKE124046 Later Prehistoric enclosure, Bax Farm, Tonge (Monument)
Monument Type MKE7657 Possible Roman linear cropmarks, Sackett's Hill, Broadstairs (Monument)