Monument record MWX603 - Iron Age/Romano-British field system, Bindon Hill, West Lulworth

Fragmentary Celtic fields on the north slope of Bindon Hill, near its west end cover about 10 acres. Others probably extended south to lower ground where faint traces appear under the remains of strip cultivation around SY 831805. Lynchets are up to 10 ft high and appear to be unconnected with the Iron Age earthworks (see SY 88 SW 2). <1>

The field system is now mostly obscured by scrub vegetation; some fragmentary lynchets can be seen but nothing approaching a height of 10ft. <2>

<1> 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.

<1.1> Royal Air Force, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 5432-4 (Aerial Photograph). SWX2684.

<2> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F1 NJA 27-AUG-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455628 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 8 2024 3:49PM