Monument record MDO38970 - Historic field boundary, Pitt Farm, Whitchurch Canonicorum

A distinct linear scarp is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1948, to the south of Little Pitt Coppice, Pitt Farm, Whitchurch Canonicorum. It runs northwest-southeast for over 200m cutting across two modern fields. It is possibly a field boundary or trackway of medieval or post medieval date but a natural origin cannot be ruled out. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP, it is still visible as an extant earthwork on recent Google Earth imagery.

A distinct linear scarp is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1948 (1), to the south of Little Pitt Coppice, Pitt Farm, Whitchurch Canonicorum. It runs northwest-southeast for over 200m cutting across two modern fields. It is possibly a field boundary or trackway of medieval or post medieval date but a natural origin cannot be ruled out. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP, it is still visible as an extant earthwork on recent Google Earth imagery (2).

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4179-80 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14832.

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

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Jul 26 2019 1:26PM