Monument record MDO757 - Deserted settlement at Pulston, Charminster

The site of a deserted medieval settlement with associated strip fields is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs. Also known as Polingston.

SY 667953. Listed as Deserted Medieval Village of Polingston. <3> Well-defined earthworks consisting of rectangular closes and house platforms are visible at SY 671946 on available RAF air photographs <4>. Further north from these earthworks, in area SY 667953, no distinct traces of desertion can be seen <5>. There are no settlement remains at SY 667953 around Pulston Barn. Running north-east of the Barn for 170 metres and centred at SY 66709542, are three terraces of strip lynchets up to 1.2 metres high. These have been subsequently cut into (? Quarried), giving the false impression of closes and house platforms. Immediately south of the Barn at SY 66759525, quarrying has taken place giving rise to further misinterpretation as closes. The settlement around SY 671946 has been considerably ploughed down leaving little more than smoothed and spread features, now almost indeterminate. Detail deleted from M.S.D. <6> C 12/C 13 pottery has been recovered at SY 6667 9545 following a limited amount of surface disturbance. <7> The site of a deserted medieval settlement with associated strip fields is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs. <8-10>

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Jul 28 2023 12:21PM