Monument record MDO588 - Prehistoric field system, Burleston

'Celtic' fields are detectable over 150 acres of gently undulating ground, mostly arable, in Burleston, Dewlish and Milborne parishes; they formerly continued in all directions.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 342 (Monograph). SDO136.

'Group (63): Burleston Down (Dewlish and Milborne St. Andrew). 'Celtic' fields are detectable over 150 acres of gently undulating ground, mostly arable, in Burleston, Dewlish and Milborne parishes between Burleston Down SY 776960, where they survived in a pasture field, 776965, 783966 and 791960; they formerly continued in all directions. To the W., faint traces survive on Basin Hill at 772960. All the fields were between about 250 ft. and 350 ft. O.D. on Upper Chalk. Even on the present pasture of Burleston Down the fields are much disturbed. Sides include two 17 yds. Long; others are 35 yds. To 38 yds. One lynchet on the shoulder of a ridge is 20 ft. high. Air photographs: CPE/UK 1934: 4111-5; 1974: 1357-8, 3357-8; 2018: 3088'.

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