Monument record MDO25284 - Prehistoric field system on Ridge Hill, Winterborne St Martin

Earthwork remains of an Iron Age or Roman field system are visible on aerial photographs {1}. The earthworks survive to a maximum height of one metre. The site was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

'Celtic' fields, prominent although incomplete in plan, cover some 12 acres around SY 655868, north of Ridge Hill, with lynchets up to 8 feet high. Fragments extend north along the spur top and the valley west of it towards Ashton Cottages (SY 658877). <1>

Remains of Celtic fields are still visible in the area centred at SY 655868, but the lynchets have been considerably ploughed-down
in recent years, to a maximum height of 1.0m. Most of the area is under arable. <2>

Earthwork remains of an Iron Age or Roman field system are visible on aerial photographs <3>. The earthworks survive to a maximum height of one metre (RCHM). The site was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 625 (Monograph). SDO150.

<1.1> Royal Air Force, RAF/CPE/UK/2432 3296-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20223.

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JGB 09-MAY-80 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1060-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11836.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document). SDO17367.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451872 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 27 2023 9:11AM