SURVEYS OF VALLEY ENTRENCHMENTS. 39 

 VALLEY ENTRENCHMENTS IN WILTSHIRE. 



Since the investigations at Beltout, a stronger incentive 

 to the further and methodical examination of valley en- 

 trenchments has been supplied by the excavation of two 

 apparently anomalous valley enclosures near Morgan's Hill in 

 Wiltshire. (9) One of these is an unusually large example, 

 nearly square in plan and enclosing about seven acres. The 

 other, of small area, is situated near the centre of the large 

 work. No attempt can be made here to summarise the 

 results of their excavation, but it certainly has been shown 

 that some of our valley entrenchments may be even 

 mediaeval. 



VALLEY ENTRENCHMENTS OF THE PIDDLETRENTHIDE 

 DISTRICT. 



A study of the quadrilateral valley entrenchments in Sussex, 

 Wilts, and Dorset, has led to their being provisionally divided 

 into three types : 



A. The Valley -head Enclosure. 



B. The Valley-side Enclosure. 



C. The Valley-proper Enclosure. 



The positions of the valley entrenchments here referred to in 

 the Piddletrenthide district are all delineated on the six inch 

 Ordnance Survey of Dorset, Sheet XXXI., N.E. ; and the 

 plans now exhibited show that each of the above types is 

 represented. (10) 



9. " A Mediaeval Earthwork near Morgan's Hill," by Mrs. M. E. 

 Cunnington, Wilts. Arch, and Nat. Hist. Mag., Vol. XXXVI., p. 590. 



10. The field surveys were made with the assistance of Mrs. H. S. 

 Toms and Mr. B. W. Harrison (members of the Brighton and Hove 

 Archaeological Club), and Mr. Harry Hicks, of Piddletrenthide, from 

 the 14th to 20th July, 1910. The magnetic variation for the period 

 was obtained from the Director General of Ordnance Surveys, South- 

 ampton. 



