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monument Word or Phrase:SQUARE ENCLOSURE *  
Definition:A square shaped area of land enclosed by a boundary ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier. Small square enclosures (with sides of less than c.20m) have been interpreted as the remains of square barrows of Iron Age date.

* Copyright of English Heritage (1999)

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