Site Name: Pitcot Henge - Cropmark enclosure (possible henge)
Civil Parish: Stratton on the Fosse
Grid Ref: ST 6555 4997 (ST 64 NE)

The public accessibility of this site is unknown but it should be visible from a public right of way. Please assume that the site is private property.

Details:

A possible henge monument noticed on APs and surveyed and trial excavated in 1975-6 by Downside School Archaeological Society. No finds. {1}

Nothing significant seen on RAF APs. {3}

Proposal to schedule refused. {4}


References:

1 Mention - Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Society 1976 vol 120, 70
2

Mention - Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Society Aston, M 1977 "Somerset Archaeology 1976" vol 121, 110

3 Detailed records - Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division 1979 ST64NE17 (SCC Planning Department)
4 Correspondence - HBMC (English Heritage) to P Jebb of Downside Abbey 20.01.76

Data kindly supplied by the Somerset Historic Environment Record.
Record created in September 1985
© Copyright Somerset County Council 2007

Recommended books on henge monuments (and the Neolithic of the UK);
Henge Monuments of the Brtitish Isles - Jan Harding
Avebury - The Biography of a Landscape - Joshua Pollard and Andrew Reynolds
The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland - Richard Bradley