Monument record MDO42911 - Iron Age/Romano-British field system, South Field Hill, Sydling St Nicholas

Linear banks and ditches of an Iron Age/Romano-British field system are visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery on South Field Hill, Sydling St Nicholas. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Linear banks and ditches of an Iron Age/Romano-British field system are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery on South Field Hill, Sydling St Nicholas (1-3). The features include a number of linear banks that run parallel to the hillslope and these may alternatively be lynchets of medieval date.

The majority of the features remain visible as earthworks and cropmarks on current Google Earth imagery. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FP 1377-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16859.

<2> Royal Air Force, 21-OCT-71, RAF/29/3012 V 2012-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16878.

<3> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 236 (Monograph). SDO97.

Record last edited

Dec 7 2020 5:56PM