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Multi-periodSite Name: The Trendle Alternative Name: The Frying Pan
Country: England County: Dorset Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Village: Cerne Abbas
Map Ref: ST66730167
Latitude: 50.813616N Longitude: 2.473602W
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

2 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

no data Access:

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.

no data Accuracy:

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
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

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Misc. Earthwork in Dorset

The following information comes from the Pastscape site: "Earthwork, called the Trendle, forms a roughly rectangular enclosure, it consists of an outer bank with a slight outer ditch on the N and E and an inner bank with a slight inner ditch. The inner bank is of sharper profile and more regular form and is presumably of later date; it is indeed stated to have been a hedge-bank (Antiquity, IV, 113). Within the enclosure is a rise in the ground of quite irregular form. The enclosure is said to have been used for Maypole dancing.
(2) Possibly Romano-British, associated with the Cerne Giant (ST 60 SE 39).
(3) "The Trendle" or "Frying Pan"; a small banked enclosure measuring 30.5 m by 27.4 m with a raised disturbed centre. It may represent an Iron Age burial mound, the tomb perhaps of the person represented by the 'Giant'.
(4) Situated at ST 66730167, terraced into the S end of a N-S spur immediately above and E of the Cerne Abbas Giant, lies a well preserved rectangular earthwork. The area enclosed measures 23.0 m NW-SW by 19.0m NW-SE, and is a level platform cut into the slope. For such a small earthwork the system of banks and ditches is complex. They consists of an outer ditch 0.3 m deep, intact around the N side only, but traceable around the W and E. Inside this is a substantial bank 1.8 m high on the downhill S side, and 1.5 m on the uphill N side broken by a possible entrance in the S corner. A second continuous bank runs parallel to, and inside of, the above, averaging 0.6 m high and 2.0 m wide with traces of a vestigial inner ditch 0.2 m deep. Roughly central to the enclosure and orientated E-W lies a rectangular mound, 15.0 m long by 10.0 m wide, and up to 0.7 m high. Without excavation, it is impossible to conclude the age and purpose of this feature. However, some form of ritualistic origin seems likely. Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD with 1:1250 enlargement.
(5) The earthwork is known locally as "Frying Pan". Enquiries to establish the application of the name 'Trendle' to the feature were negative. Mrs Fox (b) a life long, and now also the oldest inhabitant of Cerne Abbas, stated that she had never heard of the name 'Trendle' being applied specifically to the enclosure, but rather it seems to some vague indeterminable area of Giant Hill"
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