MAKE A MEME View Large Image The defences, which comprise a bank with an external ditch, have been left unfinished on the S.W. side, but if complete would enclose an oval of just over 2 acres. At its best the bank is 24 ft. across and 4 ft. high and the ditch is of ...
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Keywords: &quot;Unfinished Hill-fort, in Mistleberry Wood [near Sixpenny Handley] occupies a weak defensive position on the S. slope of a spur between 475 ft. and 500 ft. above O.D. (996195). It lies within an area of Clay-with-flints and is obscured by trees and bushes. The defences, which comprise a bank with an external ditch, have been left unfinished on the S.W. side, but if complete would enclose an oval of just over 2 acres. At its best the bank is 24 ft. across and 4 ft. high and the ditch is of similar dimensions. The unfinished nature of the earthwork is clearest on the N.W. where the bank gradually diminishes in height and the ditch becomes a series of shallow pits. There is an original entrance on the S.E. side.&quot; <a href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset/vol5/pp64-72" rel="nofollow">www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset/vol5/pp64-72</a> earthworks cranbornechase
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