Monument record MDO4768 - Prehistoric field system, Stoke Wake

Part of a banked field system is visible as earthworks on Bulbarrow Hill on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. It is considered likely to be predominantly later prehistoric in origin but might include later or re-used features. It was digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

'Group (50): Cuckoo Lane (Hilton and Stoke Wake).
'Celtic' fields, considerably altered, survive on parts of the W.-facing slopes of the spur S. from Bulbarrow, between 600 ft. and 800 ft. O.D., partly on Clay-with-flints over the Chalk. They formerly extended into Stoke Wake parish where, N. of Bulbarrow, dyke (7) impinges on fragmentary remains. A pattern is detectable only over some 8 acres immediately W. of Cuckoo Lane, extending N. from ST 774048 to the boundary with Stoke Wake parish.
A series of roughly parallel E.-W. lynchets 30 yds. To 40 yds. Apart runs down the slope to a substantial lynchet on the W. shoulder of the spur. N.-S. field divisions between them are generally destroyed or altered. There is a double-lynchet with lower scarp 7 ft. high running S. for 80 yds. From the parish boundary at 77450412.
Air photographs: CPE/UK 1934: 1078-9'. (1)


Part of a banked field system is visible as earthworks on Bulbarrow Hill on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1945; RAF 1947; EA 2018). It is considered likely to be predominantly later prehistoric in origin but might include later or re-used features. It was digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 FS 2175 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21717.

Royal Air Force, 27-MAR-1945, RAF/106G/LA200 FP 1084 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21692.

Environment Agency, xx-xxx-2018, Environment Agency National Lidar Programme DTM 1M (Aerial Photograph). SDO21483.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 334-335 (Monograph). SDO136.

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Feb 16 2026 3:31PM