Monument record MDO7899 - Settlement remains on the Goathorn Peninsula

The house, probably seventeenth century, had two rooms. A rubble pile suggests a chimney breast against the partition wall. Two structures nearby are marked by clayey banks only. Prior to excavation, these remains had been associated with the failed settlement of Newton.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 282-3 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘(28) SETTLEMENT REMAINS, house footings and other structures, lie at the base of the Goathorn peninsula on Studland Heath near the S. shore of Poole Harbour and were formerly in Swanage parish. The remains are in a broad shallow valley with many oaks. The house (01138521), probably 17th-century, had two rooms: that to the W. was 10 ft. by 14 ft.; that to the E. was 29 ft. by 12 ft. narrowing to 10 ft. at the E. end and had a doorway at the W. end of the S. wall with a window just to the E. A rubble pile suggests a chimney breast against the partition wall. Two structures near by are marked by clayey banks only. The first, 30 yds. S. of the house, is 22 ft. by 10 ft.; a bank running W. from its S.W. angle supports an oak tree probably 350 years old. The second, about 40 yds. W. of the house, is 15 ft. by 9 ft. These remains are close to, but cannot be identified with, the site of Edward I's proposed new town, Newton. (Med. Arch, VII (1964), 223–6.)’

<2> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 97 (Index). SDO147.

‘Site lies in mixed woodland, scrub and heathland. OS SZ08NW15. 7/7/C.’

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1994, Medieval Village Research Group Index, PRN 499 (Index). SDO16386.

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