Monument record MDO50469 - Later prehistoric field system, Winterbourne Houghton

Fragments of a banked field system are visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery and cropmarks on aerial photographs in fields to the south of Winterborne Houghton village. The features are considered to be of later prehistoric origin and in places are overlain by the medieval strip fields decsibed in MDO50470. The features cover an area of over 14 ha and were digitally recorded during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM Project.

Fragments of a banked field system are visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery and cropmarks on aerial photographs in fields to the south of Winterborne Houghton village. The features are considered to be of later prehistoric origin and in places are overlain by the medieval strip fields described in MDO50470. The features cover an area of over 14 ha and were digitally recorded during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM Project.
( NMR 1995, EA 2023)

National Monuments Record, 04-SEP-1995, NMR 15405/19 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21709.

<1> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

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Feb 12 2026 12:46PM