Monument record MDO39891 - Iron Age or Romano-British field system, Knowlton, Woodlands

Ditched linears visible to the southwest of Knowlton on a 1989 vertical aerial photograph may represent part of an Iron Age or Romano-British field system. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

SU 0179 1005. Perpendicular linear ditches, probably representing Prehistoric or Roman field boundaries, are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs, and have been mapped by EH's Knowlton Circles Project. The linear features are fragmentary and appear in the area from SU 0176 1015 - SU 0182 0993. They seem to post date Bronze Age round barrows in the immediate vicinity . Further fragmentary traces of possible field systems are visible to the east and south. <1>

Ditched linears visible as cropmarks to the southwest of Knowlton on a 1989 vertical aerial photograph may represent part of an Iron Age or Romano-British field system <2>. The linear features run parallel and perpendicular to each other on a north-south axis, which is different to the historic field pattern which aligns southeast-northwest. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Stoertz, Cathy, RCHME/EH/HE Aerial photograph interpreter's comments (Verbal communication). SDO19474.

<1.1> 06-SEP-1989, NMR SU 0110/3-4 (NMR 4554/22-3) (Aerial Photograph). SDO20369.

<2> National Monuments Record, 06-SEP-89, NMR 4554/22 (SU0110/003) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15650.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1409956 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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