Monument record MDO1003 - Prehistoric field system, Dewlish

An extensive prehistoric field system. Field boundaries of prehistoric or later date are visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery in fields to the northeast of Crawthorne Farm, they were digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project.

Field boundaries of prehistoric or later date are visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery in fields to the northeast of Crawthorne Farm, they were digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project. <2-3> They cover an area of over 22 hectares and form part of a wider system of fields.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 342 (Monograph). SDO136.

'Group (63): Burleston Down (Dewlish and Milborne St. Andrew). 'Celtic' fields are detectable over 150 acres of gently undulating ground, mostly arable, in Burleston, Dewlish and Milborne parishes between Burleston Down SY 776960, where they survived in a pasture field, 776965, 783966 and 791960; they formerly continued in all directions. To the W., faint traces survive on Basin Hill at 772960. All the fields were between about 250 ft. and 350 ft. O.D. on Upper Chalk. Even on the present pasture of Burleston Down the fields are much disturbed. Sides include two 17 yds. Long; others are 35 yds. To 38 yds. One lynchet on the shoulder of a ridge is 20 ft. high.
Air photographs: CPE/UK 1934: 4111-5; 1974: 1357-8, 3357-8; 2018: 3088'.

<2> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

<3> National Monuments Record, 21-APR-1976, NMR 926/429-30 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20896.

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Aug 18 2024 12:17PM