Monument record MDO3113 - Iron Age or Romano-British field system, Winterborne Monkton

Slight earthwork remains of an Iron Age or Romano British field system, visible on aerial photographs. The earthworks survive to a height of 0.3 metres. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

(Centred SY 682872) Field system visible on air photographs. <1>

Low vague lynchet slopes up to 0.3m high are visible in a field under pasture. Although there is insufficient evidence on the ground to classify the lynchets, their form on air photographs suggests Iron Age type. <2>

Slight earthwork remains of an Iron Age or Romano British field system, visible on aerial photographs <3>. The earthworks survive to a height of 0.3 metres. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1986, Dorset Barrow Survey, SDR 696 (Index). SDO134.

‘The field system is now under plough and appears to have been destroyed.’

<1> Atkinson, R J C, Annotated record map 1 to 6 inch scale, 13.2.50 (Map). SDO18356.

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 23-AUG-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 696 (Index). SDO12304.

The field system is now under plough and appears to have been destroyed.

<4> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3299-3300 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11831.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451969 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 8 2024 7:29PM