Monument record MDO44115 - Later prehistoric settlement, Tarrant Keyneston

The probable site of a later prehistoric settlement is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The site comprises fragments of conjoined curvilinear enclosures, field boundaries and pits. It was digitally plotted from aerial photographs during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project.

The probable site of a later prehistoric settlement is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <2-3>. The site comprises fragments of conjoined curvilinear enclosures, field boundaries and pits. It was digitally plotted from aerial photographs during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project.


ST 921 048 (FCE) A rapid examination of air photography suggests the presence of an enclosure and linear features, possibly of Prehistoric or Roman date, visible as cropmarks northwest of Tarrant Keyneston. <1>

<1> Miller, Andrew, 1993, RCHME: AP Primary Recording Project, 27-JAN-1993 (Unpublished document). SWX1708.

<1.1> National Monuments Record, 07-APR-1989, NMR 4350: 15-16 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19194.

<2> Historic England Archive, 23-APR-2015, HEA 29557/047 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18392.

<3> National Monuments Record, 25-JUL-1996, NMR 15560/11 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18393.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 982023 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 11 2023 4:15PM