Monument record MDO6378 - Linear earthwork, Nine Yews, Wimborne St Giles

A linear earthwork at Nine Yews is integrated with an extensive prehistoric field system. It comprises of a ditch between two banks, now largely levelled by ploughing, and following a sinuous southwest-northeast path. The earthwork is associated with a field system and presumably served as a boundary between blocks of fields or was possibly part of a larger enclosure.

The earthwork consists of a pronounced ditch between two low spread banks. At present under crops. <1>

A length of bank and ditch at SU 039138, now largely flattened by ploughing, is integrated with the adjoining 'Celtic' fields, and presumably served as a boundary between blocks of fields. <3>

<1> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 25-MAY-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

SU 03821372 - SU 03911381) Earthwork (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 119 (Monograph). SDO129.

'On Bottlebush Down and at Nine Yews (039138), 'Celtic fields are integrated with lengths of bank and ditch, now largely flattened by ploughing, which presumably served as some form of boundary between blocks of fields.'

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213782 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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