Monument record MDO1605 - Enclosed field system, Long Lands Farm, Frampton and Maiden Newton

Centred at SY 609944. An Iron Age/Romano British field system consisting of pronounced field banks and lynchets, particularly on the valley slope where there has been no modern cultivation, although the area is almost entirely under pasture.
(See RAF air photographs CPE/UK/2431/4144-5. 22 1 48). <1>

An Iron Age/Romano British field system is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs <2-12>. It consists of pronounced field banks and lynchets, particularly on the valley slope where there has been no modern cultivation, although the area is almost entirely under pasture. They were formerly more extensive and have in parts been overlaid by or integrated into a later pattern of broad medieval ridge-and-furrow (MDO21674 ) and strip lynchets (MDO21675).

This overlying ridge-and-furrow on the downland probably represents a temporary or sporadic extension of cultivation beyond the limits of the permanent arable in the Mediaeval period or, possibly, later. Modern ploughing is completing the work of destruction throughout the whole group. The remains have been further disturbed by numerous small quarries and chalk pits, now disused (MDO21264).

Fragments of a possible Iron Age/Romano-British settlement (MDO21677 ) situated on the valley slope just to the north-west of Long Lands Farm are likely to be contemporary with the field system.

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 07-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2> 21-SEP-1998, NMR SY 6094/6 (18153/08) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11314.

<3> 1972, DCC 212-0096 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11313.

<4> 14-APR-1984, NMR OS/84029 140-41 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11312.

<5> 05-MAY-1989, NMR OS/89137 571-73 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11239.

<6> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3271-73 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11238.

<7> 13-APR-1984, NMR OS/84029 138-40 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11220.

<8> 14-APR-1984, NMR OS/84029 173-74 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11219.

<9> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053 038-41 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11215.

<10> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3270-72 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11188.

<11> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 4093-95 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11174.

<12> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 4239-41 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11169.

<13> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453599 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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