Monument record MDO7742 - Possible post Medieval windmill mound, Coombe Hill, Langton Matravers

SZ 00907894. A ploughed windmill mound on the summit of Coombe Hill measuring 68ft diameter and formerly over 3ft high, with slightly-hollowed flat top. The ditch 10ft wide and 1ft deep is broken by a causeway on the south. (See also SZ 08 SW 54). <2-3>

A possible post Medieval windmill mound is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 1945 on Coombe Hill, Langton Matravers. The mound is sub-circular and measures 19 m in diameter. A sub-oval depression is visible in the surface of the mound <1>. This feature was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey (Index). SDO147.

‘The site lies in a field occasionally ploughed and in ley pasture when visited. AP/DCC Area 2/1972/5585 212202. 7/7/D.’

<1> Royal Air Force, 10-FEB-1945, RAF 106G/LA128 7077-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13415.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 482, No 41 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘Other Earthworks and Allied Monuments. … (41) Windmill Mound (SZ 07 NW; 00907894), on summit of Coombe Hill, a small W. to E. ridge. Diam. 68 ft., ht. formerly over 3 ft., with slightly-hollowed flat top. Ditch 10 ft. wide and 1 ft. deep, broken by causeway on S. Ploughed.’

<3> Bone, M, 1980, Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset 31 March 1980, 14 (Article in serial). SDO19174.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457478 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jun 17 2024 1:04PM