Monument record MDO45027 - Field system, bordering the River Crane, Wimborne St Giles

Part of an area of "Celtic" fields of later prehistoric and/or Roman date. Located in the area north and northwest of Nine Yews and bordered approximately by the River Crane to the northeast and Bottlebush and Drive Plantations to the west, two phases of fields can be distinguished among the pattern of cropmarks visible on air photographs. To the southeast the fields appear to be integrated with linear earthwork bank and ditch MDO6378. Several round barrows and ring ditches are extant among the fields.

(Centred SU 037144) Part of an area of 'Celtic' fields (Group 85) covering the chalklands in the north east of the county. North of Nine Yews (SU 038136) two phases of fields can be distinguished, one overlying the other, and at SU 039138 (see SU 10 SW 19) the fields appear to be integrated with a bank and ditch presumably serving as some form of boundary between blocks of fields. The more elongated rectangular type of field, generally attributed to the Romano-British period possibly occurs south and west of the River Crane. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 118-9 (Monograph). SDO129.

<2> Historic England, Historic England Archive, Object Number: RCH01/091. (Index). SDO14738.

Object Title: RCHME Inventory: Dorset V (East). Scope & Content: Annotated publication proofs for Dorset V, East Dorset, published in 1974. Also includes original surveys, drawings and field notes, and unpublished material. Original survey material has been catalogued.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213756 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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