Monument record MDO564 - Romano-British settlement near Bookham, Buckland Newton

Traces of irregular close-set terraces up to 130 yards long may mark the site of a settlement. Romano British tiles and coarse pottery have been found.

On the hill called Knoll (centred ST 701044) there are about 100 acres of very disturbed 'Celtic' fields detectable. No certainly complete field survives, but some lynchets are 8 feet high. A probable settlement at ST 70130442 covered about 3 acres with a track entering it from the North West. The faint remains of platforms have been flattened by ploughing and some sherds of Romano-British pottery have been found on the surface. <1-2>

Scattered field banks and lynchets suggestive of an Iron Age/Romano British field system are visible round the north east and south sides of Knoll Hill, centred ST 701044. <3>

ST 70144 The settlement site and field system remain as described <1> <3>. The vague and unsurveyable (?) platforms are now discernible as patches of darker green grass. Poorly defined on OS air photographs. <4>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 327 (Monograph). SDO136.

'Settlement, (a), at 70130442 just S.E of the hill-top, covered about 3 acres with a track entering it from N.W. Platforms, on a 9 degrees slope, have been flattened by ploughing, but the faint remains suggest similarity to Piddletrenthide (43). A few sherds of Romano-British pottery were found on the surface'.

<1.1> Ordnance Survey, OS 74/058/029-30 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17456.

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-01-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3352-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17455.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 15-SEP-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F2 GB 17-OCT-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/096 RCHME Inventory: Dorset III (Central) (Unpublished document). SDO17384.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 201933 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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