Monument record MDO45698 - Prehistoric field system, Tarrant Gunville and Ashmore

(Centred ST 926 170) Fragments of a large field system are visible on air-photographs. <1>

An extensive field system. Centred at ST 926 173 are large lynchets, partly ploughed and partly wooded. At ST 9265 1600 a few lynchets are visible under grass and their relationship to the Roman Road (RR46) was not ascertainable. At ST 9224 1733 are extensive but scattered field-banks. <2>

This extensive field system fragmented by modern agriculture remains as described by authority 2.
A flight of five pronounced Medieval type lynchets up to 3.0m high and 20.0m wide run around the west end of a small coombe at ST 91861834. Ploughed down field banks occupy the ridge top at ST 92201780. These average 0.4m high and 6.0m wide and form rectangular 'Celtic' style field plots some 60.0m by 80.0m. Similar banks occupy the gentle sough west hillslope at ST 92701708. They are up to 9.0m wide and 0.3m high and form a complex curvilinear pattern; visible on OS air photographs. <3>

<1> Atkinson, R J C, Annotated record map 1 to 6 inch scale, Jan-Mar 1949 (Map). SDO18356.

<1.1> Royal Air Force, 07-JAN-1954, F22/58 RAF 1332/0079-81 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19508.

<1.2> Royal Air Force, 27-APR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK 2621/4006-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19509.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 09-APR-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F2 GB 20-DEC-77 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<3.1> Ordnance Survey, OS/75/371 094-95 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19166.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209848 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 22 2023 4:59PM