Monument record MDO3330 - Iron Age/Romano-British field system at Winterbourne Poor Lot, Winterbourne Abbas

Earthwork remains of an Iron Age or Romano British field system comprising lynchets with an average height of 1.2 metres and field banks 5 metres wide and 0.2 metres high.

FIELD SYSTEMS: Taken from Air photos in Jany - March 1949 by:- R J C Atkinson. <1>

Area centred at SY 594906. A field system of IA/RB type, with field banks and lynchets forming rectilinear fields. These are most pronounced in the pasture N. of the DORCHESTER - BRIDPORT ROAD, where the lynchets average 1.2m high, and the field banks average 5.0m wide and 0.2m high. S. of the road the system is poorly defined and much of the area has been under the plough. The relationship of the system to the barrows of the WINTERBORNE POOR LOT group (39SE7) could not be defined but is assumed to be of later date. See AP CPE/UK/243/3146. <2>

The remains of an Iron Age or Romano British field system are visible as low earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs to the north-west of West Hill Farm. <3-5>

<1> Atkinson, R J C, 1949, spec 6 inch (RJCA 1.3.49) (Map). SWX1583.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 03-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> 14-JUN-1988, NMR OS/88184 613-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11146.

<4> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 5097-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11145.

<5> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053 015-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11138.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451189 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jan 23 2025 12:31PM