Monument record MDO7405 - Shrunken medieval village, Corfe Castle

Earthworks assoicated with a shrunken medieval village are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the north of Kingston Village. They were digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

Earthworks assoicated with a shrunken medieval village are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the north of Kingston Village (1-3). The earthworks lie to the north of the modern village, they were digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 4227-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13376.

<2> Royal Air Force, 20-MAR-1945, RAF 106G/LA187 4011-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13377.

<3> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 5408-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13378.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 100 (Monograph). SDO148.

‘(179) STRIP FIELDS, around Kingston (957796; map p. 99), stretch from Willwood and Lynch Farm in the N. to points some ½ mile S. of the village. … The divisions into large open fields cannot be reconstructed, nor is it clear where the Kingston-Blashenwell boundary lay. The deep hollow-way (a) bounding the fields on the E. also separates them from the land around Scoles Farm (Monument 126), which is mediaeval in origin. No significant earthworks are connected with the fields or village. One or two badly mutilated earth platforms, extending N.E. from the present village, have been broken up by the quarrying which also caused an apparent modification in the furlong arrangement immediately N. of (b). …’

<5> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 650 (Index). SDO147.

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Aug 23 2024 11:22AM