Monument record MDO30400 - Undated field boundaries, Woodman's Cross, Coombe Keynes

A series of dispersed bank and ditched linear features are visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs in fields to the south-west of Woodman's Corner. They run in a roughly NNE-SSW direction and may be fragments of a larger coherant field system of uncertain date.

(Centred SY 84938580) Undated field system, under grass, comprising small field banks and lynchets. <1>

No trace of alleged field system on air photograph although rig-and-furrow covers most of the delineated area. <2>

A series of dispersed bank and ditched linear features are visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs in fields to the south-west of Woodman's Corner. They run in a roughly NNE-SSW direction and may be fragments of a larger coherant field system of uncertain date <3>. The site was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 10-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2> Mead, Richard, Field Investigators Comments RPM, R1 RPM 24-2-81 (Unpublished document). SWX2301.

<2.1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1036-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13236.

<3> Royal Air Force, 18-FEB-1970, RAF 58/0254 V1 0027-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13246.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455335 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Oct 12 2023 3:23PM