Monument record MDO44440 - Possible prehistoric field boundaries, Keyneston Down, Tarrant Rawston

A series of narrow ditched curvilinear features are visible as cropmarks on Keyneston Down, Tarrant Rawston, on aerial photographs. The features are located surrounding and adjacent to a rectilinear enclosure (MDO5030) of possible Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age date. The northern section of the easternmost linear feature potentially corresponds with a ditch (MDO37367) excavated as part of the Corfe Mullen to Salisbury Water Transfer Scheme (Evaluation trench 74), which produce Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age pottery. The ditched linear features may, therefore, be field/enclosure boundaries and/or trackways contemporary with this date (and the enclosure), although a later origin for some is also possible. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A series of narrow ditched curvilinear features are visible as cropmarks on Keyneston Down, Tarrant Rawston, on aerial photographs [1, 2]. The features are located surrounding and adjacent to a rectilinear enclosure (MDO5030) of possible Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age date. The northern section of the easternmost linear feature potentially corresponds with a ditch (MDO37367) excavated as part of the Corfe Mullen to Salisbury Water Transfer Scheme (Evaluation trench 74), which produce Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age pottery. The ditched linear features may, therefore, be field/enclosure boundaries and/or trackways contemporary with this date (and the enclosure), although a later origin for some is also possible. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 13-SEPT-1982, OS 82203 V 213 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18585.

<2> Historic England Archive, 01-OCT-2015, HEA 29588/029 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18593.

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Sep 26 2022 3:11PM