Monument record MDO1606 - Enclosed field system, Notton Down, Frampton

An Iron Age/Romano British field system is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs. Additional banked linear features visible on current Lidar imagery on the north side of the field system are likely to be contemporary and were plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Centred at SY 607947. An Iron Age/Romano British field system with pronounced field banks and lynchets on the north side of the valley. Above the 500 ft. contour the fields are mostly arable, and the system has been much reduced, though still visible on the ground, and in RAF air photographs CPE/UK 2431/4144-5.22 1 48. <1>

An Iron Age/Romano British field system is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs <2-5>. It consists of pronounced field banks and lynchets, particulartly pronounced on the north side of the valley. Above the valley the fields are mostly arable, and the system has been much reduced, though still visible as cropmarks in places. The remains have been further disturbed by numerous small quarries and chalk pits, now disused (MDO21265). A possible Iron Age/Romano-British enclosure (MDO21679 ) situated at the top of the valley slope just to the east of Notton Hill Barn is likely to be contemporary with the field system.

Additional banked linear features visible on current Lidar imagery on the north side of the field system are likely to be contemporary and were plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 22-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 4144-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11316.

<3> 1972, DCC 212-0097 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11315.

<4> 13-APR-1984, NMR OS/84029 138-40 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11220.

<5> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3270-72 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11188.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453602 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Oct 26 2023 4:54PM