Monument record MDO3628 - Prehistoric settlement in Old Park, Bryanston

A prehistoric settlement has been noted in Old Park, Bryanston. An Iron Age and Romano-British settlement consisting of embanked, hollowed or platformed features. Iron Age and Roman pottery was found. The features are visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middel Stour AIM Project.

(ST 85950708) A settlement, about 4 acres in area, consists of a group of contiguous embanked, hollowed or platformed features on the summit of a spur falling gently E. Air photographs suggest that a track approached from W. and ran through the settlement. Occupation debris includes possibly Romano-British sherds, coarse pottery of Iron Age type, and wattle-marked daub. <1>

A prehistoric settlement has been noted in Old Park, Bryanston. An Iron Age and Romano-British settlement consisting of embanked, hollowed or platformed features. Iron Age and Roman pottery was found. The features are visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery [3], they cover an area of 2.1 hectares and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middel Stour AIM Project.

Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 2163-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17728.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 341 (Monograph). SDO136.

<1.1> Historic England, Historic England Archive (Index). SDO14738.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205407 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<3> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

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Nov 22 2022 6:58PM