Monument record MDO43085 - Possible Iron Age field boundaries, Ball's Hill, Sydling St Nicholas

Two linear banked features are visible as faint cromarks on 1940s aerial photographs within a field on Ball's Hill, Sydling St Nicholas. The features may be field boundaries of possible Iron Age/ Romano-British date, although a later origin is also possible. They potentially respect a linear earthwork that may be an Iron Age cross dyke (MDO2647) but there is no clear or certain relationship between these two sets of features.They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Two linear banked features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs within a field on Ball's Hill, Sydling St Nicholas (1). The features extend from east to west along the southern side of the field, on the same alignment as the historic field boundary to the south. They may be field boundaries of possible Iron Age/Romano-British date, although a later, possibly medieval origin is also possible. They potentially respect a linear earthwork that may be an Iron Age cross dyke (MDO2647) but there is no clear or certain relationship between these two sets of features.They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The features are still visible as cropmarks on Google Earth imagery.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RS 4377-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17062.

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Feb 19 2021 9:46AM