MSO12190 - Modern tree circle on Wootton Common (Non-antiquity)

[SS 942 438] A rapid examination of aerial photography shows a possible circular enclosure visible as a ring of scrub/low trees in a conifer plantation on Wootton Common. [1,2] The area of the National Grid Reference is one of former coniferous plantation which has recently been clear felled leaving a broad and irregular swathe of deciduous trees, which form an irregular `enclosure'. There is no earthwork component to this feature, and nothing to suggest any feature of archaeological interest. It appears that the deciduous trees are the remnants of broad leaved woodland surviving between blocks and areas of coniferous planting. [3] This record was enhanced as part of the National Record of the Historic Environment to Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record data transfer project. [4]