Monument record MDO8405 - Celtic fields, Worth Matravers

Celtic fields bounded by lynchets, exposed by ploughing. (1)

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.

‘Group (24): ST.ALDHELM’S HEAD (SY 97 NE; 95965754), Worth Matravers. ‘Celtic’ fields variously preserved and in places overlain by strip fields, are found over about 60 acres N. and N.E. of St. Aldhelm’s Head between 200ft. and 400 ft. above O.D. … (ii) St. Aldhelm’s Chapel, E. of ‘Celtic’ fields bounded by lynchets about 1½ ft. high and stone banks, recently exposed by ploughing, lie on a slope of up to 7° in an area that could not be adequately examined. Apart from the spread banks there was no scatter of stones on the fields. On pasture S. of this, about 96447545 disturbed lynchets are up to 7 ft. high on maximum slope of 15°.’

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

‘Land N. of cliff edge in rough grassland, further fN. Is a regularly ploughed field.’

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Nov 25 2024 12:50PM