Monument record MDO4677 - Medieval cultivation remains on Shillingstone Hill, Shillingstone

Extensive remains of medieval ridge and furrow formerly overlay 'Celtic' fields on Shillingstone Hill. Fragments of the medieval field system are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1947 and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

'(24) Cultivation Remains. Nothing is known of the open fields of the parish, but from the reversed-S curves of the existing field boundaries it appears that they lay S. and E. of the village, where there are also traces of ridge-and-furrow. Extensive remains of ridge-and-furrow formerly overlay 'Celtic' fields on Shillingstone Hill (840097), beyond the permanent open fields (see Group (58), p. 340).' (1)
Fragments of the medieval field system are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1947 [2] and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project, they have since been levelled by ploughing [3].

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 241 (Monograph). SDO136.

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 RS 4164 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18757.

<3> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Nov 10 2022 8:37PM