Monument record MDO8311 - Prehistoric field system in Sleight Bottom, Winfrith Newburgh

An extensive Iron Age or Romano British field system on Winfrith Down. The field system is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs and runs for over 2km southwards through Sleight Bottom to Daggers Gate.

An extensive Iron Age or Romano British field system on Winfrith Down. The field system is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs (2-7) and runs for over 2km southwards through Sleight Bottom to Daggers Gate. The site was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 628-629 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(ii) Sleight Bottom, Winfrith Newburgh. 'Celtic' field lynchets, some massive but all very disturbed, cover about 70 acres of a dry valley. Strip lynchets just N. and very faint traces of strip cultivation immediately E. suggest that some extension of such cultivation may have created the curving lynchets and broken-down field divisions at the N. of the block. Flint pits have been quarried into lynchets crossing the valley floor. The 'Lulworth hoard' of Late Bronze Age bronzes (actually from Winfrith Newburgh parish) was found in 1903 during flint quarrying near 805824 (Ant. J. XV (1935), 449–51) and so had possibly been hidden in a lynchet.'

<2> Royal Air Force, 18-FEB-1970, RAF 58/0254 0004-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13743.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 19-APR-1982, OS/82047 483-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13746.

<4> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 2436-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13742.

<5> Dorset County Council, 2009, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12079.

<6> Royal Air Force, 20-MAY-1970, RAF 58/0531 0021-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13747.

<7> Royal Air Force, 18-FEB-1970, RAF 58/0254 0047-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13748.

Record last edited

Oct 19 2015 9:25AM