Monument record MDO38226 - Historic drainage system, Purcombe Farm, Whitechurch Canonicorum

Bank and ditched features are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1948, to the north of Purcombe Farm. They are considered to be associated with medieval or later drainage as well as field boundaries. They are partially extant on lidar imagery and were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

Bank and ditched features are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1948, to the north of Purcombe Farm 91). They are considered to be associated with medieval or later drainage as well as field boundaries. They are partially extant on lidar imagery (2) and were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP. Two elongated mound lie at SY 4180 9635, to the east of the main drainage channel on the aerial photographs, they are of uncertain date and function and have since been levelled.

<1> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, sy4096_dtm_1m.asc (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4175-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14596.

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