Monument record MDO38615 - Possible historic field boundaries, Blackdown House, Broadwindsor

Possible historic banked field boundaries to the northeast of Blackdown House are visible as faint earthworks on aerial photographs taken in the 1940s and on a Lidar survey of 2010. The broad nature of these lynchets and their slightly curvilinear form suggest a probable medieval origin, although a later date is also possible. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

Possible historic banked field boundaries to the northeast of Blackdown House are visible as faint earthworks on aerial photographs taken in the 1940s (1) and on a Lidar survey of 2010 (2). The lynchets lie within a larger curvilinear enclosure of probable medieval origin, possibly part of the relict medieval open field associated with Blackdown House. The broad nature of the lynchets and their slightly curvilinear form also suggests a probable medieval origin, although a later date is also possible.The site is no longer visible on the latest Google Earth imagery (3). The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RS 4409-10 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14785.

<2> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, ST4003dtm.1m.acs (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<3> Google Earth, 2006, Google Earth vertical photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO14562.

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Jul 26 2019 11:26AM