Monument record MDO38928 - Post medieval cultivation marks and field boundaries, Harper's Coppice, Marshwood

Bank and ditched field boundaries, forming part of a field system of medieval or later date, are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1948 to the south east of Harper's Coppice. The features are associated with a unit of cultivation marks which are likely to be be the result of post medieval cultivation although later 20th century ploughing is possible. The features have been plough-levelled and no longer visible on recent Google Earth imagery. They were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

Bank and ditched field boundaries, forming part of a field system of medieval or later date, are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1948 to the south east of Harper's Coppice (1). The features are associated with a unit of cultivation marks. The spacing between the ridges is 4m so too wide for modern ploughing but much narrower than medieval ridge and furrow; the features may therefore be the result of post medieval cultivation although later 20th century ploughing is possible. The features have been plough-levelled and no longer visible on recent Google Earth imagery (2). They were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4209-10 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14798.

<2> Google Earth, 2013, Google Earth 2013 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12686.

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