Monument record MDO6490 - Medieval settlement of Baggeridge, Woodlands

Fieldwalking revealed a concentration of medieval pottery in this area. This has been interpreted as a probable area of medieval settlement, and possibly the lost village of Baggeridge.

(Area SU 029090) The deserted Medieval settlement of Baggeridge in Woodlands parish mentioned in a document of 1272-3, is thought to have been situated near Bagman's Copse. This is called "Bagenham Coppice" on the 1841 Tithe Map, and the most likely position for the settlement appears to be a triangular piece of unenclosed pasture shown on the Tithe Map to the west of the copse and south of a house occupying the position of the present chalk-pit. This area has been ploughed for many years and no traces of habitation now exist. <1-3>

<1> Fagersten, A, 1933, Place-names of Dorset, 93-4 (Monograph). SDO17521.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1967, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1966, 209-210 (Serial). SDO66.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 111 (Monograph). SDO129.

<4> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1989, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1988, 154-155 (Serial). SDO88.

Field A2. West of Bolehays Copse, SU 030093
Possible site of lost village of Baggeridge
This field continued a large number of medieval sherds of pottery (three times the average for the other fields) concentrated around the end of a linear feature known from aerial photographs (RCHM 1975, 116) that runs from Knowlton South Circle to this field. A sixpence, date 1573, was found in the same area.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213068 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 11 2023 3:50PM