Monument record MDO7285 - Iron Age field system, Chideock Farm, Chaldon Herring

An extensive group of linear and curviliear banks and ditches are visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs and Lidar imagery of the fields surrounding Chideock Farm. They are considered likely to be the remains of an Iron Age to Roman field system and settlement

WhiteWyaAn extensive group of linear and curvilinear banks and ditches are visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs (1-5,7) and Lidar imagery (6) of the fields surrounding Chideock Farm. They are considered likely to be the remains of an Iron Age field system. These features were digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset) and the Wild Pubeck Mapping Project. The most recent comprehensive aerial images available to the project show that a majority of these features have now been plough-levelled, although some still remain as upstanding earthworks towards the northern part of this area.

The possible later prehistoric field system described above in (1-7) is visible continuing to the east as cropmarks on aerial photographs of the 1970s. The earthworks consist of: small sub-square and sub-rectangular fields defined by banks; and possible trackways. (2, 7-8) These features were digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

Keen, L and Carreck, A ed, 1987 , Historic landscape of Weld: the Weld Estate Dorset. (Monograph). SWX8134.

<1> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 F20 4323 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12927.

<2> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 F36 2438-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12932.

<3> Royal Air Force, 18-FEB-1970, RAF 58/0254 0001-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12923.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 11-JUN-1978, NMR OS/78080 215 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12931.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 19-APR-1982, NMR OS/32047 388 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12933.

<6> Channel Coastal Observatory, 25-FEB-2009, Lidar (Aerial Photograph). SDO12879.

<7> Royal Air Force, 18-FEB-1970, RAF 58/0254 0004-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13743.

<8> Royal Air Force, 20-MAY-1970, RAF 58/0531 0039-40 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13859.

Record last edited

Oct 30 2015 9:40AM