Monument record MDO38732 - Possible post medieval field boundary, Burstock, Burstock

A possible post medieval field boundary to the east of Pound Cottage, Burstock, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s and on the latest Lidar imagery. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A possible post medieval field boundary to the east of Pound Cottage, Burstock, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s (1) and on the latest Lidar imagery (2). The boundary is not shown on the OS 1st Edition map but an aerial photograph taken in 1947 (1) shows a possible banked boundary marking the southern extent of a large area of extraction (MDO38731) to the north. The site is visible on the latest Google Earth imagery (3) and was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11 APR 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FS 2409-10 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14772.

<2> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, ST4202dtm.1m.acs (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

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

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Jul 26 2019 11:42AM