Monument record MDO21512 - Celtic field system, Wynford Eagle

Field system of probable Iron Age or Roman origin, visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery. The northern continuation of the field system was recorded during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project.

[Area centred at SY58659560] Celtic field system, on the W slope of the hut 600 yds SE of the church, extending for approximately 1/2 mile. <1>

Centred at SY 585950. An extensive IA.RB type field system, exceeding 1 1/2 miles from N to S, but little over 1/4 mile wide. The area is almost completely under pasture, and the field banks and lynchets genrally pronounced throughout. See AP/CPE/UK/2475/3175. Centred at SY 585945. 'A'. In this area are a number of Md strip lynchets, pronounced and under grass. <2>

Field system of probable Iron Age or Roman origin, visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. The system has been overlain to the south by the medieval field system described in MDO3467. <3-5> The northern continuation of the field system was recorded from lidar imagery during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project <6>.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 270 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(10) Celtic Field-System, on the W. slope of the hill 600 yards S.E. of the church, extending for approximately ½ mile.'

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 21-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053 043-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11275.

<4> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 4146-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11092.

<5> Royal Air Force, 08-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 3243-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11089.

<6> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document). SDO17367.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450739 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 31 2022 11:46AM