Monument record MDO42905 - Iron Age/Romano-British field system, Farm Hill Bottom, Maiden Newton

Banked linear features are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on Farm Hill Bottom, Maiden Newton. The features are considered likely to be field and enclosure boundaries associated with an Iron Age/Romano-British field system. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

(Area centred SY 617978) Field systems plotted from air photographs. <1>

Vague fragmentary remains of a `Celtic' field system are visible in the south west of the delineated area. <2>

Ploughed out--no remains. <3>

Banked linear features are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on Farm Hill Bottom, Maiden Newton <4-6>. The features are considered likely to be field and enclosure boundaries associated with an Iron Age/Romano-British field system. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Many of the features are still visible as low earthworks and cropmarks on current Google Earth imagery.

<1> Atkinson, R J C, 1949, spec 6 inch (RJCA 1.3.49) (Map). SWX1583.

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 14-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<2.1> Royal Air Force, 1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 3130-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17954.

<3> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 04-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<4> Royal Air Force, 20-OCT-71, RAF/39/3812 V 0208-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16873.

<5> Royal Air Force, 21-OCT-71, RAF/39/3812 V 0210-11 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16874.

<6> Royal Air Force, 20-OCT-71, RAF/39/3812 V 0258-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16877.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453058 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 15 2023 4:18PM