Monument record MDO563 - Iron Age/Romano-British field system, Knoll, Buckland Newton

The remains of an extensive prehistoric field system of Iron Age/Romano-British date around Knoll. The monument has been disturbed but fields can be seen as fragmentary earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs, covering about 100 acres around the sides of the hill.

On the hill called Knoll (centred ST 701044) there are about 100 acres of very disturbed 'Celtic' fields detectable. No certainly complete field survives, but some lynchets are 8 feet high. A probable settlement at ST 70130442 covered about 3 acres with a track entering it from the North West. The faint remains of platforms have been flattened by ploughing and some sherds of Romano-British pottery have been found on the surface. <1-2> Scattered field banks and lynchets suggestive of an Iron Age/Romano British field system are visible round the north east and south sides of Knoll Hill, centred ST 701044. <3> ST 70144 The settlement site and field system remain as described <1> <3>. The vague and unsurveyable (?) platforms are now discernible as patches of darker green grass. Poorly defined on OS air photographs. <4>

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Jan 13 2022 2:20PM