Monument record MDO38888 - Post medieval cultivation marks, Mill Plantation, Wootton Fitzpaine

A unit of post medieval narrow ridge and furrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1948 to the north of Mill Plantation. The features run NNE-SSW and overlie the scarps described in MDO38887. They were are ruler straight and may be the result of 19th century steam ploughing although a 20th century origin is possible. The features were 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 1948 to the north of Mill Plantation (1). The features run NNE-SSW and overlie the scarps described in MDO38887. The parallel features run NNE-SSW and are 4m apart so too wide for modern ploughing but much narrower than medieval ridge and furrow. They were are ruler straight and may be the result of 19th century steam ploughing although a 20th century origin is possible. The features were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP, they have been plough-levelled and no longer visible on recent Googlr Earth imagery (2).

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4183-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14794.

<2> Google Earth, 2010, Vertical Aerial Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO14600.

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Jul 26 2019 12:33PM