Monument record MDO38826 - Post medieval cultivation marks, Higher Sminhay Farm, Marshwood

A unit of post medieval narrow ridge and furrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1947 to the west of Higher Sminhay Farm. The spacing between the ridges is 4m so too wide for modern ploughing but much narrower than medieval ridge and furrow. The features may be the result of post medieval cultivation although later 20th century ploughing is possible. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A unit of post medieval narrow ridge and furrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1947 to the west of Higher Sminhay Farm (1). The spacing between the ridges is 4m so too wide for modern ploughing but much narrower than medieval ridge and furrow. The features may be the result of post medieval cultivation although later 20th century ploughing is possible. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP. The site has been plough-levelled and the ridging is no longer visible on recent Google Earth imagery (2).

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 1412-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14827.

<2> Google Earth, 2008, Digital Vertical Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO14816.

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Jul 26 2019 11:58AM