Monument record MDO42898 - Iron Age/Romano-British field system, Fore Hill, Maiden Newton

Banked linear features are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs on Fore Hill, Maiden Newton. The features are considered likely to be field and enclosure boundaries associated with an extensive Iron Age/Romano-British field system. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Banked linear features are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs on Fore Hill, Maiden Newton (1-5). The features are considered likely to be field and enclosure boundaries associated with an extensive Iron Age/Romano-British field system. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The features are still visible on current Google Earth imagery.

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 153 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(19) LYNCHETS, on a W. slope, on the E. of the railway and to the E. of the village, form four groups, extending for about 700 yards.’

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-48, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4276-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16872.

<2> Royal Air Force, 20-OCT-71, RAF/39/3812 V 0208-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16873.

<3> Royal Air Force, 21-OCT-71, RAF/39/3812 V 0210-11 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16874.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 13-APR-84, OS84024/070 V (Aerial Photograph). SDO16875.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 13-APR-84, OS84024/072 V (Aerial Photograph). SDO16876.

Record last edited

Dec 8 2020 11:45AM