Bowden, M., Jamieson, E. and Winton, H. (2015). Tennyson Down, Totland, Isle of Wight: Analytical Earthwork Survey and Aerial Photographic and Lidar Report. Fort Cumberland: Historic England. https://doi.org/10.5284/1058088. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Tennyson Down, Totland, Isle of Wight: Analytical Earthwork Survey and Aerial Photographic and Lidar Report
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Series:		 Historic England Research Reports
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https://doi.org/10.5284/1058088
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Publication Type:		 Report (in Series)
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Abstract:		 Earthworks on the high chalk ridge of Tennyson Down close to Tennyson's Beacon or Monument in Totland parish, Isle of Wight, were surveyed by English Heritage Assessment Team West (now part of Historic England). Aerial photographs and airborne laser scanning data (lidar) were examined to assess archaeological features and landscape change in the immediate vicinity of the surveyed earthworks. These earthworks have been known in part for some time but it was only when lidar was studied in 2014 that it became clear that apparently disconnected features were in fact part of an oval prehistoric enclosure, one sector of which was then concealed within woodland. The woodland was cleared off the earthworks during the autumn and winter of 2014. The earthworks comprise at least three main phases of activity; the enclosure, a field system and a complex of more recent activity, probably of the 20th century. The reason for undertaking survey was not only the considerable importance of the site in archaeological terms, once its true nature had been identified, but the imminent danger to the site from cliff erosion, which has already claimed a substantial but unknown portion of the enclosure.
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Author:		 Mark Bowden
Elaine Jamieson ORCID icon
Helen Winton
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Publisher:		 Historic England
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2015
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Site: Tennyson Down
County: Isle of Wight
District: Isle of Wight
Parish: TOTLAND
Country: England
Grid Reference: 432500, 85300 (Easting, Northing)
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20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods) ANTI LANDING OBSTACLE (Monument Type England)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) FIELD SYSTEM (Monument Type England)
LATER PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods) OVAL ENCLOSURE (Monument Type England)
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY (Event)
FIELD SURVEY (Event)
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OASIS Id: englishh2-245039
OBIB: 87/2015
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Note:		 A4 bound report of 21pp.
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Created Date:		 13 Jan 2020