Monument record MDO21665 - Town Hill: ridge and furrow

Parallel linear features are visible on aerial photographs as earthworks overlying an Iron Age/Romano-British field system described in MDO21661. These features are considered likely to be cultivation marks of broad medieval ridge-and-furrow.

Parallel linear features are visible on aerial photographs as earthworks overlying an Iron Age/Romano-British field system described in MDO21661. These features are considered likely to be cultivation marks of broad medieval ridge-and-furrow. {1}

This broad ridge-and-furrow on the downland probably represents a temporary or sporadic extension of cultivation beyond the limits of the permanent arable in the medieval period or, possibly, later. Modern ploughing is completing the work of destruction throughout the whole group. {2}

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3270-72 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11188.

<2> Dorset Ridgeway Monument Reports (Digital archive). SDO11007.

Record last edited

Apr 27 2012 3:59AM