Monument record MDO3571 - Roman settlement on Little Down, Blandford St Mary

Romano-British settlement first observed around 1870 when the downland was converted to arable and it was seen after ploughing that 'the discoloration of soil consequent on human occupation extends around for many acres'. Pits were observed and finds included pottery, oyster shells, animal bones, two brooches, and coins of Allectus and Constantine II. Aerial photographs show the settlement set within an expanse of prehistoric fields and trackways. The field system was digitally recorded from lidar imagery and aerial photographs and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

A bank and ditched field system is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on lidar imagery and aerial photographs <1-4> and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM. It is part of a wider field system which extends to the north in MDO3588 and MDO45742 to the south.

<1> National Monuments Record, 18-SEP-2007, NMR 24729/11 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19546.

<2> Royal Air Force, 18-FEB-1970, RAF/58/024 V1 154 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19522.

<3> Google Earth, 2009, Google Earth 2009 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15393.

<4> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Feb 24 2023 7:55PM