Monument record MDO30702 - Medieval or post medieval enclosure, Kingston, Corfe Castle

A rectangular bank and ditched enclosure of probable medieval or post medieval date is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1928 and 1946.

A rectangular bank and ditched enclosure of probable medieval or post medieval date is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1928 and 1946. (1-2). The feature is 41m by 37m. It is levelled and no longer visible on recent Google Earth photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 4226-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13394.

<2> Crawford, O G S, 10-FEB-1928, NMR SY9579/2 (CCC 8807/780) (Aerial Photograph). SDO13396.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 100 (Monograph). SDO148.

‘(179) STRIP FIELDS, around Kingston (957796; map p. 99), stretch from Willwood and Lynch Farm in the N. to points some ½ mile S. of the village. … An almost square enclosure of about ¼ acre defined by an unbroken slight bank with external ditch, which lies over part of a strip, formerly surrounded a small tree-clump shown as a 'plantation' on the Tithe Map (95847918). A ditched causeway 20 ft. wide runs from a point near Lynch Farm S.W. across strip fields, past the N.W. edge of The Plantation. It cuts through risers and is clearly later than the fields. (R.A.F. V.A.P. CPE/UK 1821: 5408–11.)’

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Aug 29 2024 12:02PM