Monument record MDO43500 - Field System, Blandford St Mary

(Centred ST 870050) Field Systems. Taken from air photographs in 1949. <1>

Centred ST 870050. A very poorly defined field system on arable ground, though at the time of investigation largely under grass. The system is best seen on air photographs and is of Iron Age/Romano British type ST 861058. In this area there are some pronounced E-W, grass covered lynchets. These are approximately parallel, but rather widely spaced, and appear to be neither straight nor regular enough to be Medieval. They may represent Medieval or later utilization of the Iron Age/Romano-British system. <2>

Traces of 'Celtic' fields vaguely referred to in text but shown on plan. <3>

<1> Atkinson, R J C, 1949, spec 6 inch (RJCA 1.3.49) (Map). SWX1583.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 02-SEP-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2.1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3327-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17712.

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 341, 345 (Monograph). SDO136.

<4> Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1986, Dorset Barrow Survey (Index). SDO134.

No visible trace in a field regularly ploughed, newly ploughed and planted with grass crop when visited. Lies in the NE corner of the field. To N is a hedge boundary marking the parish boundary with Bryanston, to E is a field entrance and beyond a track.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 35 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<6> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 882877 (Index). SDO14738.

RCHME: `Celtic' Fields, Settlements and Dykes, Little Down, Dorset: The survey has been scored onto the acetate and a yellow label has been stuck onto the bottomBibliographic References : 1) Pt 2, Field Gp (68) Little Down

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205429 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Mar 3 2025 4:11PM