Monument record MDO42951 - Iron Age/ Romano-British field system, Eastfield Hill, Sydling St Nicholas

Linear banks belonging to an Iron Age/ Romano-British field system are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery on Eastfield Hill, Sydling St Nicholas. The features may be an extension of a further area of Iron Age/Romano-British field system (MDO42933; NRHE Hob UID 453117) on Shearplace Hill to the south. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

SY 638 992. Oval enclosures and Celtic fields on Eastfield Hill. Two or perhaps three enclosures on the crest of the west-facing spur overlooking the Sydling Brook. They are 80-100 ft across and appear to be integrated into the Celtic field system, which is in turn an extension of the Shearplace Hill system. <1>

Linear banks belonging to an Iron Age/ Romano-British field system are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery on Eastfield Hill, Sydling St Nicholas <2-4>. The features may be an extension of a further area of Iron Age/Romano-British field system (MDO42933) on Shearplace Hill to the south. On the south side of Eastfield Hill the features merge with an area of medieval strip lynchets (MDO42952) and the two groups of features may overlap. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Many of the features are still visible as cropmarks on current Google Earth imagery <5> and earthworks on current Lidar imagery <4>.

<1> Unpublished revision RCHME Dorset I (West) Undated (Sydling St Nicholas file) (Unpublished document). SDO13182.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1794 RP 3377-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16888.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 15-SEPT-79, OS79124/310 V (Aerial Photograph). SDO16885.

<4> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

<5> Google Earth, 16-09-2020, Google Earth imagery 2020 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16840.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 868660 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jul 21 2023 3:13PM