Monument record MDO39556 - Post medieval or modern field boundaries, Week Common, St Leonards and St Ives

A series of post medieval or modern banked field boundaries on Week Common are visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

A series of post medieval or modern banked and ditched field boundaries on Week Common are visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1).

The field boundaries are typically straight and rectilinear in form and aligned southwest to northeast. They are considered likely to represent later post medieval or modern enclosure of the common. The historic field boundaries edging the common are more curvilinear in form and on a slightly different alignment.

The boundaries are still visible as low banked earthworks on current Google Earth imagery and were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP. (2).

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3171 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15486.

<2> Google Earth, 2017, Google Earth 2017 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15388.

Record last edited

Oct 2 2017 2:33PM