Monument record MDO21661 - Town Hill: enclosed field system

Fragments of a field system of probable Iron Age/Romano-British date are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs. They were formerly more extensive and have in parts been overlaid by or integrated into a later pattern of broad medieval ridge-and-furrow (MDO21665) and strip fields (MDO21662). {1-8}

Several settlements scattered between these fields, on Little Hogleaze (MDO1174, MDO21656, MDO21658) and above at West Hill Bottom (MDO1173, MDO21649), which are Romano-British at least in their final phases, are likely to be contemporary with the field system.

<1> 10-JAN-2007, NMR SY 6193/8 (24506/10) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11311.

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3268-70 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11216.

<3> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053 038-41 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11215.

<4> 14-APR-1984, NMR OS/84029 241-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11205.

<5> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3270-72 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11188.

<6> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3266-68 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11177.

<7> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 4093-95 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11174.

<8> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 4239-41 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11169.

Record last edited

Mar 29 2012 10:54AM