Monument record MWX628 - Medieval earthworks, Eastington Farm, Worth Matravers

Medieval strip lynchets, much damaged covered in narrow rig and crossed by a dry-stone wall, lie on the west-facing slope above Seacombe Bottom, south and south west of Eastington Farm. Above them on the spur top are further very faint traces of strip fields and remains of others lie 700 yards south of the farm. (SY 985777). From a point 60 yards south east of the settlement at Eastington Farm (see SY 97 NE 54) are three broad sloping terraces dropping to the combe floor with scarps some 9-16ft high; they are now under pasture but have probably been developed by cultivation and other usage on natural shelves. On the middle terrace lie three pillow mounds (see SY 97 NE 55) and a roughly rectangular platform about 18ft x 7ft; immediately below in rather marshy ground are traces of two adjoining rectangular enclosures measuring about 54ft x 48ft and 30ft x 18ft (see plan with SY 97 NE 14). (1) No change: these features, 60-120 m OD, lie in permanent pasture on land recently acquired by the National Trust. (2)

Royal Air Force, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 3400-1 (Aerial Photograph). SWX2759.

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

<2> Wardale, C F, Various, Field Investigators Comments CFW, F1 CFW 24-JAN-86 (Unpublished document). SWX2704.

<3> English Heritage, 1996, County list of Scheduled Monuments : March 1996, p45 (Scheduling record). SWX2762.

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