Monument record MDO7873 - Iron Age/Romano-British settlement, Steeple

SY 898827. West Creech. Occupation debris comes from a low ridge about 150 ft above sea level E of North Hills Plantation. The remains consist of a thin scatter of RB pottery first noted in rabbit-holes in 1953, and subsequently after ploughing. <1-2>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1956, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1954, 86 (Serial). SDO54.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 608 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(28) West Creech (SY 88 SE). Occupation Debris comes from a low ridge about 150 ft. above sea level E. of North Hills Plantation (898827). The remains consist of a thin scatter of Romano-British pottery first noted in rabbit-holes in 1953, and subsequently after ploughing (Dorset Procs. LXXVI (1954), 86).'

<3> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 197 (Index). SDO147.

Site lies in a field occasionally ploughed and in ley pasture. 7/7/D

<4> Valentin, J, and Robinson, S, 1999, An archaeological field evaluation of a proposed New Lagoon System at North Hills Plantation, Steeple Parish, Dorset (Unpublished document). SDO17268.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455494 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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