Monument record MDO7523 - Iron Age/Romano-British field system, Encombe Big Wood, Corfe Castle

Iron Age/Romano-British field system. Field investigations in 1986 found it to be ploughed out. Low lynchets are however visible on lidar taken in 2008-9.

Field system. There are lynchets throughout this area. <1>

SY 941778. Remains of `Celtic fields with lynchets up to 3 feet high cover a small area immediately south of Big Wood, but formerly extended in all directions. One lynchet, crossing a settlement to the south (SY 98 SW 14) seems to have accumulated in the later Iron Age and early Romano-British period. <3>

The field system has now been ploughed out. <5>

The site was mapped as part of the the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset). The site is was not completely levelled as low lynchets were visible on lidar taken in 2008-9. <6-7>

<1> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 21-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1965, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1964, 109 (Serial). SDO64.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 630 (Monograph). SDO150.

<4> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 73 (Index). SDO147.

Site lies in a regularly ploughed field. OS SY97NW13.

<5> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 30-APR-86 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<6> Channel Coastal Observatory, 23-MAR-2008, Lidar (Photograph). SDO12878.

<7> Channel Coastal Observatory, 25-FEB-2009, Lidar (Aerial Photograph). SDO12879.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456541 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 6 2024 4:36PM