Monument record MDO1468 - Historic field system, Loders Hill, Loders

Banked field boundaries of historic date are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and aerial photographs on the summit and southeastern side of Loders Hill. The features are possibly enclosured medieval strip fields dating to the early post medieval period and are associated with a small area of parallel cultivation marks. The features were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP project.

'(21) LYNCHETS, on the E. slope of Loders Hill about ½m. S.S.E. of the church, form a system extending for nearly ¼m. The width of the terraces varies from 12 to 30 ft.' (1)

Banked field boundaries of historic date are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and aerial photographs on the summit and southeastern side of Loders Hill. The features are possibly enclosured medieval strip fields dating to the early post medieval period and are associated with a small area of parallel cultivation marks. The features were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP project.
(2-3).

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 140 (Monograph). SDO97.

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3161-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14124.

<3> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, sy4993nw_dtm_50cm.asc and sy4993sw_dtm_50cm.asc (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

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Jan 13 2016 2:47PM