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Latitude: 50.7509 / 50°45'3"N
Longitude: -2.6353 / 2°38'6"W
OS Eastings: 355280.270397
OS Northings: 94780.22372
OS Grid: SY552947
Mapcode National: GBR PS.G2BK
Mapcode Global: FRA 57C3.94Q
Entry Name: Part of a Later Prehistoric or Romano-British field system 250m north of Eggardon Hill Farm
Scheduled Date: 26 March 1958
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1002807
English Heritage Legacy ID: DO 344
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Toller Porcorum
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Maiden Newton and Valleys
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
The monument includes part of a later Prehistoric or Romano-British field system, situated along the steep valley side of a tributary to the River Frome to the east of Eggardon Hill. The part of the field system survives as a complex and extensive series of field banks and strip lynchets of up to 3m high with some identifiable square-shaped individual fields. At least two different areas of fields are represented in total covering an area of some 12ha.
Further archaeological remains survive in the vicinity and are scheduled separately.
Sources: HER:-
PastScape Monument No:-450931
Source: Historic England
Despite reduction in the heights of some banks and lynchets from cultivation, the part of the field system 250m north of Eggardon Hill Farm survives well and will contain archaeological and environmental evidence relating to its construction, development, the social organisation of the builders and land allocation, agricultural practices and overall landscape context.
Source: Historic England
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