Monument record MDO37320 - Medieval settlement remains at Berne Farm, Whitchurch Canonicorum

<1> Hearne, C M, 1991, Ryall to Charmouth Main. Archaeological Watching Brief. (Unpublished document). SDO203.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1992, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1991, 184-185 (Serial). SDO91.

‘OBSERVATIONS ON A PIPELINE IN THE VALE OF MARSHWOOD … A series of low earthworks were visible across the field close to Berne Farm (SY 394 944), the site of a former Manor House, later the seat of Sir George Somers, founder of the colony of Bermuda in the late 16th-early 17th centuries. Two raided, roughly parallel ridges aligned north-south from the southern field boundary ran towards the area of Berne Farm and may represent the line of a former track between it and Berne Cottage. Associated with these appeared to be a low ‘terrace’ in the west-facing slope of the small knoll in the east corner of the field.’

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