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Enclosure in Brookes Coppice, 600m north west of Five Elms is a prehistoric earthwork monument located in Dorset. The site comprises an enclosed area defined by banks and ditches, characteristic of Iron Age settlement patterns in southern England. Such enclosures typically served defensive, administrative or pastoral functions within the wider Bronze Age and Iron Age landscape, though the precise dating and specific function of this particular example would require further archaeological investigation to establish with certainty.
Enclosure in Brookes Coppice, 600m north west of Five Elms is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020630. View the official record →
Enclosure in Brookes Coppice, 600m north west of Five Elms is a prehistoric earthwork monument located in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020630.
Enclosure in Brookes Coppice, 600m north west of Five Elms is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1020630.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow cemetery in Hyde Hill Plantation (7.4 km), Round barrow cemetery 400m and 500m south east of Hyde Hill Plantation (7.6 km), Bowl barrow 200m south east of Pimperne Long Barrow (8.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Enclosure in Brookes Coppice, 600m north west of Five Elms's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Enclosure in Brookes Coppice, 600m north west of Five Elms stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.