Monument record MDO25264 - North-east of Blagdon Barn, linear ditches

A group of linear ditches are visible as a cropmarks on aerial photographs. Their date and function are uncertain, most probably medieval or later field boundaries. Located within the area of the Winterbourne Abbas Corridor Geophysical Suvey in 2017 (EDO7852) but was not detected.

A group of linear ditches are visible as a cropmarks on aerial photographs {1}. Their date and function are uncertain, most probably medieval or later field boundaries. They were digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Located within the area of the Winterbourne Abbas Corridor Geophysical Suvey in 2017 (EDO7852) in field 57B but the report specifically says that the monument has no magnetic expression & about 40m of land at the southeast end of field 57B was too steep to survey.

Roseveare, M J, 2017, Visual Impact Provision (VIP) Project – Dorset, Geophysical Survey Report (Unpublished document). SDO18127.

<1> 11-6-1978, NMR OS/78080 041-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12084.

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Aug 2 2022 11:38AM