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Multi-periodSite Name: Church Hill Enclosure (Alton Pancras) Alternative Name: weird square earthworkCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.712 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Dorset Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Cerne Abbas Nearest Village: Alton Pancras
Map Ref: ST7145403608
Latitude: 50.831296N Longitude: 2.406703W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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A square earthwork, about 25m each side, a raised bank about 1m above the flat surrounding ground, immediately adjacent to the Wessex Ridgeway, not far from the famous crossroads of ancient Wessex trackways called the Dorset Gap.
Marked as an antiquity on the 1:25000 OS map as "Enclosure"
A nice place to visit - great views and a good walk with lots of other megaliths in the area. Cerne Abbas is a few km away.
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