Pilsdon Pen

DTM- (Digital Terrain Model, i.e. No buildings or foliage) Overlooking the small village of Templemans Ash sits the highest Dorset hillfort at 277m, Pilsdon Pen. This multivallate contour hillfort contains LiDAR visual traces of a 17th century square structure as well as a possible long barrow. The other smaller elongated mounds are medieval pillow-mounds for breeding rabbits. First excavated in 1964, then again in ’77. Finds include a Gallo-Belgic XV coin, a small Roman sherd, Roman ballista bolt, Iron Age huts and fragments of a crucible containing specks of gold, Mesolithic flints and two late neolithic to Bronze age burial mounds. (Scheduled Monument) Iron Age tribal association (conjecture based on location): Durotriges [Any descriptive text is attributed to the Atlas of Hillforts & Wikipedia websites and any associated archaeological descriptions online which will be credited accordingly.]