Monument record MDO3105 - Field System, Winterborne Monkton

'Group (2): Bradford Peverell and Winterborne Monkton (SY 69 SE; 662917-667902; Fig. p.494). Traces of 'Celtic' fields, mutilated by a system of strip fields and modern ploughing, cover some 300 acres on Fordington Down but formerly extended in all directions. Two Romano-British settlements at 667907 and 666910, now destroyed, lay within the fields (Dorset Procs,. LXXVIII (1956), 80-1). Most of the fields are N. of the Roman aqueduct at the S.W. of Fordington Bottom, to have cut across 'Celtic' fields. Only a few scarps survive S. of the road in Winterborne Monkton. (R.A.F. V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934: 5087-9 and 2088).' (1)

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