Monument record MDO21580 - Eggardon Ridge: field system

Field Systems. Taken from Air photo's in Jany-March 1949 by R.J.C. Atkinson. <1>

[Centred at SY 58059286] An area of field banks and lynchets forming irregular fields of IA/RB type. The lynchets average 5.0m. wide and 0.7m high, and the field banks 5.0m. wide and 0.3m. high. The system is pronounced but under the plough in area "A"; elsewhere it is grass covered. <2>

[Area Centred at SY58109315] A small area of lynchets of 1A/RB type, partly grass covered partly plough. <3>

A rectilinear bank and ditched field system is visible as low earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs to the south of the Roman road on Eggerton Ridge. It lies immediately to the east and south-east of the univallate enclosure described in record MDO1541. It is of uncertain origin, possibly of Iron Age, Roman or medieval date. <4-8>

<1> Atkinson, R J C, 1949, spec 6 inch (RJCA 1.3.49) (Map). SWX1583.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 02-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F2 FDC 03-JUN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<4> 14-APR-1984, NMR OS/84029 234-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11293.

<5> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3147-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11120.

<6> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 4147-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11088.

<7> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053 034-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11087.

<8> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 4224-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11056.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450934 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 24 2023 4:44PM