Monument record MDO5212 - Deserted village of Nicholson, Winterborne Clenston

Extensive Settlement remains with long closes, hollow-way, lynchets and building platforms.

(Centred ST 839024) SETTLEMENT REMAINS (838027, 838022 and 839022), part of the former village of Nicholson, lie on both sides of the Winterborne valley to the S.W. and S. of St. Nicholas's Church in three groups. Some 200 yds. S.W. of the church (838027) are the remains of at least five house-sites; they are rectangular platforms, 45 ft. by about 80 ft., cut back into the valley side, with low indeterminate scarps upon them. S.E. of Oatclose Wood (838022) are a group of seven or eight long closes, 100 yds. to 120 yds. long and 50 yds. wide, divided by low banks; at least five of the closes had rectangular platforms either cut back into the valley sides or slightly raised. All of them have been destroyed by ploughing and are now represented by spreads of flints and sarsen blocks. A hollow-way 30 ft. wide with banks on both sides runs from Oatclose Wood to the Winterborne stream, dividing the group into two parts. On the E. side of the stream, to the W. of Heathy Field Coppice (839022), are the remains of four long closes, probably associated with houses; they are now almost destroyed. W. of the stream (838026) are contour strip lynchets with low risers. On the E. of the stream (840022 and 840028), fragments of massive contour strip lynchets remain. (1-2)

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