Monument record MDO313 - Iron Age field system, Bincombe

In Bincombe and Weymouth parishes 'Celtic' fields are clearly seen only north east of the south entrance of the Bincombe Tunnel on the south shoulder of the chalk ridge about 400 feet. above Ordnance Datum. Two complete fields are 88 yards. by 40 yards. Lynchets are generally about 3 feet high, occasionally 5 feet Very faint remains over about 20 acres continue north, over the crest.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 627 (Monograph). SDO150.

'Group (7): Bincombe Tunnel (SY 68 NE; 673855), in Bincombe and Weymouth parishes. 'Celtic' fields are clearly seen only N.E. of the S. tunnel entrance on the S. shoulder of the chalk ridge about 400 ft. above O.D. (Fig. p.24). Two complete fields are 88 yds. by 40 yds. Lynchets are generally about 3 ft. high, occasionally 5 ft. Very faint remains over about 20 acres continue N. over the crest. One air photograph, by Major G. W. G. Allen (Ashmolean Museum, No. 154), shows round barrows (Weymouth (416-18) at 'Celtic' field angles. (R.A.F. V.A.P. CPE/UK 1821: 6447-9.)'

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