  The following conjecture is due to Shelah-Hasson: Any infinite strongly NIP
field is either real closed, algebraically closed, or admits a non-trivial
definable henselian valuation, in the language of rings. We specialise this
conjecture to ordered fields in the language of ordered rings, which leads
towards a systematic study of the class of strongly NIP almost real closed
fields. As a result, we obtain a complete characterisation of this class.
