Monument record MDO3515 - Medieval cultivation remains, the former North Field, Ashmore

The remains of the former medieval open fields around Ashmore, enclosed in 1859. The area to the north of Ashmore village was known as North Field.

ST 911184 Fragmentary strip lynchets exist 1/4 mile north of the village of Ashmore. <1-2>

Vestigial, plough spread lynchets, up to 0.7m high, currently under pasture. <3>

<1> Royal Air Force, 20-APR-53, F22/58/1090 58-59 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18338.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 2 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(13) CULTIVATION REMAINS. The open fields were enclosed in 1859 (Map and Award, D.C.R.O.). There were three fields: North Field, on the N. of the village, and Broadridge and Sandpit Fields, on the S.; they were approximately equal in size and their combined area was only 380 acres. In addition, there was a large area on enclosed fields which, even in 1590, covered 240 acres (S.D.N.Q., x (1907), 65). Fragmentary strip lynchets which exist ¼ m. N. of the village (911184) were formerly in North Field. Other strip lynchets E. of the village (915178) lie in an area which was enclosed before 1859'.

<3> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F1 GB 16-FEB-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209981 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 22 2022 10:48AM