Monument record MDO8263 - Prehistoric settlement north east of Daggers Gate, West Lulworth

A settlement is suggested at SY 815818, where surviving 'Celtic' fields on the south-facing slope of a dry valley are different in shape and size from most of those around. Above them to the south west, air photographs show enclosures, one with a curved side skirted by a track from the west, on relatively flat ground. The whole covers about 3 acres. <4>

<1> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 2434-5, 2434-41 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13820.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Records, SY 88 SW 34 (Index). SDO131.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455680 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

‘Cropmarks of a possible Iron Age and Romano British settlement consisting of enclosures and a field system covering 3 acres.’

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 629 (Monograph). SDO150.

<5> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F1 NJA 27-AUG-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

‘The area has been heavily ploughed and most of it is currently under crops. There is now no evidence of a settlement and very little of the former field system.’

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Dec 23 2021 10:32AM