Monument record MDO38015 - Historic farmstead earthworks, South Buckam Farm, Beaminster

A large rectangular banked enclosure with associated trackway and fragments of field boundaries are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1947 to the north of South Buckham Farm. The features are considered to be the remains of a medieval or post medieval farmstead. They were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A large rectangular banked enclosure with associated trackway and fragments of field boundaries are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1947 to the north of South Buckham Farm (1). The enclosure is 55m by 40m across with a trackway running along it's western side. South Buckham Farm has a 16th or 17th century farmhouse and these earthworks are considered to be associated with the post medieval farmstead or be of earlier origin. The features have since been levelled and are no longer visible on more recent Dorset vertical photographs. The features were digitally plotted during the Masrhwood Vale NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1092-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14564.

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