Monument record MDO44405 - Later prehistoric settlement and field system, Tarrant Rushton

Ditched linear and curvilinear features are visible as cropmarks in fields to the east of Tarrant Rushton on aerial photographs. The features appear to comprise a partial rectilinear enclosure and associated field boundaries and/or trackways, thought likely to be a small settlement and associated field system of probable later prehistoric date. At the southern end, the features adjoin a curvilinear enclosure already recorded under MDO32034/NRHE Hob UID 1622747 and which may be related. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Ditched linear and curvilinear features are visible as cropmarks in a field to the east of Tarrant Rushton on aerial photographs [1-3]. The features appear to comprise a partial rectilinear enclosure 144m wide by 75m deep, and associated field boundaries and/or trackways. They are thought likely to represent a small settlement and associated field system of probable later prehistoric date. At the southern end, the features adjoin a curvilinear enclosure already recorded under MDO32034/NRHE Hob UID 1622747 and which may be related. The settlement/field system extends for almost 830m on a northwest-southeast alignment, the eastern side extending below the west side of the former Tarrant Rushton airfield.

The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> John Boyden, 02-JUL-1976, JRB 3096/10 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18503.

<2> Google Earth, 01-JAN-2005, Google Earth 2005 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18557.

<3> National Monuments Record, 13-JUL-1995, NMR 15315/60 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18559.

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Sep 21 2022 10:23AM