Monument record MDO30450 - Post medieval water meadows, Puddletown

An extensive system of post medieval water meadows is visible as partial earthworks on recent lidar imagery and as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s, immediately to the east of Puddletown and north of Athelhampton.

A extensive system of post medieval water meadows is visible as partial earthworks on recent lidar imagery and as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s, immediately to the east of Puddletown and north of Athelhampton. The earthworks can be seen over an area measuring approximately 785 m by 317 m. The water meadows continue to the east (see MDO30451). (1-3) The features were digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 20-MAR-1945, RAF 106G/LA187 4029-30 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13277.

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2018 3063-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13276.

<3> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

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