Monument record MDO43351 - Field system, Iron Age or Roman, Melcombe Horsey

The earthwork remains of an area of embanked terraced Iron Age/Roman fields located to the south-west, adjacent to the earthwork remains of a probable Iron Age Roman settlement (NRHE 202131). These remains are visible on aerial photographs taken in 2015 as part of the Historic England Reconnaissance Recording programme. The bank and ditched field boundaries are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and were digitally recorded during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project; they are part of a much wider system of fields which extend to the south east.

The earthwork remains of an area of embanked terraced Iron Age/Roman fields located to the south-west, adjacent to the earthwork remains of a probable Iron Age Roman settlement (NRHE 202131). These remains are visible centred at ST 7392 0169 on aerial photographs taken in 2015 as part of the Historic England Reconnaissance Recording programme. <1>

The bank and ditched field boundaries are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery (Environment Agency 2021 (3)) and were digitally recorded during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project; they are part of a much wider system of fields which extend to the south east. The long linear defining the south-east edge of this section of the prehistoric field system has been fossilised into the modern system of fields.

<1> Historic England, 01-OCT-2015, HEA 29595_049 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17564.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1626084 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<3> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

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Nov 12 2025 6:41PM