Monument record MDO5275 - Prehistoric field system on North Down, Winterborne Kingston

A prehistoric field system covering around 90 acres on and to the north east of North Down, and once extending in all directions. In 1970 this field system was reported as being particularly well preserved around Nutley Clump where substantial earthworks survived. These earthworks included curving scarps up to six feet high and a trackway, suggesting a settlement associated with the field system.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 343 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘Group (65): NORTH DOWN (Winterborne Kingston. Plan, p. 342). Some 90 acres of 'Celtic' fields are detectable on and N.E. of North Down, between SY 853991 and ST 857001, on the summit and E. flank of a broad Chalk ridge close to 300 ft. O.D. They formerly extended in all directions. Only 16 acres around Nutley Clump (SY 855994) are now unploughed. Here, substantial earthworks, including curving scarps 4 ft. to 6 ft. high with a contemporary trackway, suggest the proximity of a settlement associated with the 'Celtic' fields. A few sherds of coarse pottery, probably Iron Age, were found. Air photographs: CPE/UK 1934: 5122–3.’

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Mar 15 2023 8:01PM