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Name:Mount Pleasant, West Stafford
Type of Record:Monument
HER Number:MDO2890
Last edited:May 5 2020 4:22PM

Location:West Stafford; Dorset
Grid Reference:SY 709 899
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Monument Type(s):

  • HENGE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Summary

A large Neolithic henge enclosure visible as slight earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs. This monument, which was partly excavated by Wainwright in 1970-71, comprises a ditch and outer bank around an irregular oval area, with four entrances. Principal features of the interior are a palisade trench on the inner side of the ditch and a structure comprising five concentric circles of post holes within a ditch.

Protected Status

  • Scheduled Monument DO 624: Enclosure on Mount Pleasant Hill
  • Scheduled Monument DO397: Conquer Barrow
  • SHINE DDO19238: Group of Bronze Age round barrows visible as earthwork mounds and cropmarks, with linear feature visible as cropmarks, possible approach way to and features associated with Mount Pleasant Neolithic henge.

Sources and Further Reading

---SDO14409 - Monograph: Barber, Martyn. 2014. Mount Pleasant, Dorset. A Survey of the Neolithic 'Henge Enclosure' and Associated Features.
---SDO16573 - Unpublished document: Linford, N, Linford, P, and Payne, A. 2019. Mount Pleasant, West Stafford, Dorset. Report on Geophyisical Surveys, March and August 2019.
---SDO9671 - Article in serial: Woodward, P J. 1986. Observations along the Wessex Water Authority supply pipe: Alington Avenue and Mount Pleasant. 108.
<1>SDO10921 - Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 17-APR-1947. RAF/CPE/UK/2018 4012-14.
<1>SDO10978 - Cartographic materials: Barber, M. 2005. Mount Pleasant 2005 plot.
<1>SDO10981 - Unpublished document: Barber, M. 2008. Mount Pleasant Draft Archive Report 2008.
<1>SDO10984 - Aerial Photograph: 02-MAY-1993. NMR OS/93105 034.
<2>SDO10986 - Bibliographic reference: Wainwright, G J. 1979. Mount Pleasant. Dorset: Excavations 1970-1971.
<2>SDO70 - Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1971. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1970. 92. 126.
<3>SDO150 - Bibliographic reference: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset. Volume Two (South East) Part III. 504.
<4>SDO150 - Bibliographic reference: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset. Volume Two (South East) Part III. 504.

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