Monument record MDO5306 - Prehistoric field system, Winterborne Stickland

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 340-341 (Monograph). SDO136.

'GROUP (59) WINTERBORNE STICKLAND AND WINTERBORNE CLENSTON. There are traces of 'Celtic' fields over large areas of Winterborne Stickland parish, the biggest block extending N. and N.W. from Winterborne Stickland to N. of Normandy Farm, where the parish boundary about ST 842063 runs across 'Celtic' fields continuing into Bryanston parish. All the fields are on Chalk between about 300 ft. and 500 ft. O.D.; they total some 300 acres. These remains have all been much altered or degraded, especially by strip and later cultivation, and they were formerly much more extensive. There are further slight traces S. in Winterborne Clenston around the village. Such traces, and others around the villages of Stickland and the former settlement of Quarleston (Winterborne Stickland (16)), together with the favourable conditions offered by the Winterborne valley, suggest that 'Celtic' fields and, possibly, settlements have been overlain by these later settlements.

For a probable settlement overlain by the parish boundary at the extreme E., and possibly associated with 'Celtic' fields, see Group (68).

Air photographs: CPE/UK 1934: 2166-9 and 1975: 2022-5 (N. of parish); 1934: 5164-8 (N.W. from Winterborne Stickland); 1934: 3167-70 (Stickland, Quarleston, Clenston).'

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