Monument record MDO43076 - Possible Iron Age field system, Frome St Quintin

Banked linear and curvilinear features are visible as faint earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs to the southeast of Frome St Quintin. The features may represent part of a late prehistoric field system of possible Iron Age/Romano-British date. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Banked linear and curvilinear features are visible as faint earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs to the southeast of Frome St Quintin (1, 2). The features comprise a series of linear and curvilinear banks forming a series of irregular enclosures. They may represent part of a late prehistoric field system of possible Iron Age/Romano-British date. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The features are still faintly visible as partial earthworks and cropmarks on Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RS 4382-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17037.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FS 2384-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17048.

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Feb 17 2021 9:57AM