Monument record MDO69 - Medieval settlement at Croker's Barton, Alton Pancras

Medieval settlement remains, comprising earthworks of closes, formerly part of Alton village. Banked linear features associated with areas of former medieval settlement are visible on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Ceren and piddle Valleys AIM project.

Settlement remains centred around ST 69950255, formerly part of Alton village, lie around Croker's Barton. They include some well-preserved closes bounded by low banks and scarps up to 2 feet high, and other more disturbed remains. <1-2>

Evidence of village shrinkage probably of post-Medieval date, comprising the site of two or three adjoining cottages at ST
69930265, similar to cottages still standing immediately to the north; with plots to the rear, now under pasture. Nothing of
interest south of Croker's Barton (old farm buildings). <3>

Banked linear features associated with areas of former medieval settlement are visible on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features form a series of small rectilinear closes and other more fragmented boundary remains. The features do extend south of Croker's Barton on lidar imagery. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and piddle Valleys AIM project. <5, 6>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 3 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(13) Settlement remains (69950255), formerly art of Alton village, lie around Croker's Barton. They include some well-preserved closes bounded by low banks and scarps up to 2 ft. high, and other more disturbed remains.'

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 4369-70 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17362.

<3> Phillips, A S, Various, Field Investigators Comments ASP, F1 ASP 15-JUL-77 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 199059 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<5> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RS 4370 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20851.

<6> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

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Dec 19 2024 9:54AM