Monument record MDO38649 - Historic field boundaries and possible trackways, Lowdown Farm, Broadwindsor

Historic ditched and banked field boundaries and possible trackways to the east of Lowdown Farm are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s and on a Lidar survey of 2010. The linear boundaries exhibit both rectilinear and curvilinear forms and may reflect boundaries of different date, predominantly medieval or later. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

Historic ditched and banked field boundaries and possible trackways to the east of Lowdown Farm are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s (1) and on a Lidar survey of 2010 (2). The linear boundaries exhibit both rectilinear and curvilinear forms and may reflect boundaries of different date, predominantly medieval or later.Some of these boundaries are still visible on the latest Google Earth imagery (3). The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, ST4102dtm.1m.acs (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11 APR 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FS 2410-11 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14770.

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

Record last edited

Jul 26 2019 11:31AM