Monument record MDO40090 - Iron Age and Romano-British field boundaries, Matterley Drove Farm, Woodlands

A series of perpendicular linear ditches are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs to the south of Matterley Drove Farm. They are considered to be field boundaries and/or enclosures of later prehistoric or Roman origin and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

SU 0273 0898. Fragmentary rectilinear enclosures and linear ditches, probably representing Prehistoric or Roman enclosures and field boundaries, are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs, and have been mapped by EH's Knowlton Circles Project. The largest enclosure is 125m x 120m overall, with three sub-divisions, and other linear ditches and fragmentary enclosures appear to the south. These enclosures are probably associated with two possible square barrows (SU 00 NW 98, SU 00 NW 99) adjacent to the large subdivided enclosure. A probable linear trackway (SU 00 NW 101)seems to run through this enclosure group. <1-2>

A series of perpendicular linear ditches are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs to the south of Matterley Drove Farm <3-5>. They are considered to be field boundaries and/or enclosures of later prehistoric or Roman origin and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP. They are probably associated with the settlement and enclosures described in MDO6491.

<1> 18-MAR-1970, NMR SU 0209/5/183-5 (NMR 172/183-5) (Aerial Photograph). SDO19483.

<2> Boyden, J R, 02-JUL-1976, NMR SU 0209/7/2 (JRB 3097/2) (Aerial Photograph). SDO19484.

<3> GetMapping, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12563.

<4> 18-MAR-1970, NMR 179/177-80 (NMR SU 0208/1) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15731.

<5> John Boyden, 02-JUL-1976, JRB 3097/2 (NMR SU0209/7) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15721.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1409921 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 21 2023 10:08AM