Monument record MDO38808 - Historic field boundaries, Blackenfields Farm, Broadwindsor

Historic banked and ditched field boundaries to the southeast of Blackenfields Farm, Broadwindsor, are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s. Their slightly curvilinear form and alignment suggests a probable medieval origin but a later date is also possible. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

Historic banked and ditched field boundaries to the southeast of Blackenfields Farm, Broadwindsor, are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s (1). Their slightly curvilinear form and alignment suggests a probable medieval origin but a later date is also possible. The boundaries appear to sub divide larger enclosures of probable medieval origin and may represent former strip field boundaries. The westernmost of the set may be bounded or cut by an area of potential post medieval quarrying (MDO38804). The site is no longer visible on the latest Google Earth imagery (2). The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FP 1337-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14824.

<2> Google Earth, 2006, Google Earth vertical photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO14562.

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Jul 26 2019 11:56AM