Monument record MDO43349 - Iron Age / Romano British settlement, Piddletrenthide and Alton Pancras

A probable Iron Age and Romano British settlement consisting of a bank and ditch with a rectangular platform with associated field system. Medieval lynchets superimposed.

An area of pronounced field banks and lynchets on the top and sides of the spur and under grass and rough pasture. On the S slopes of the spur, in areas A and B, there are scattered but long and occasionally parallel sets of what appear to be superimposed Md strip lynchets, though in area A these have utilized the earlier system rather than simply superimposing themselves upon it. <1> Part of RCHM Group (43) Celtic fields group, which includes a probable settlement site at 'a' ST 72050305, (see plan) flanked by a bank at 'b', with an apparent ditch N of it, possibly re-used as a track. There is a rectangular platform 66ft by 42 ft bounded by low lynchets at 71890285. <2-3> At ST 71880287 on a northwest-southeast spur amidst the 'Celtic' fields is a well-defined rectangular platform 22.0m. northwest-southeast by 12.0m transversely. It has been terraced 0.6m into the hillslope to create a levelled interior bounded on the downhill by a scarp 0.8m high. Its function could not be ascertained. Visible on OS air photographs <4.1>). Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD & AM. <4>

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