Monument record MDO39774 - Historic cultivation marks, Shirewood Farm, Whitmore, Woodlands

Wide ridge and furrow-like cultivation marks are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery to the south east of Shire Wood Farm, Woodlands. The features are considered to be the result of 19th or early 20th century cultivation. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

Wide ridge and furrow-like cultivation marks are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery to the south east of Shire Wood Farm, Woodlands (1). The features are considered to be the result of 19th or early 20th century cultivation. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP. The field appears to be under permanent pasture although the features are not visible on recent vertical photographs (2-3).

<1> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

<2> Dorset County Council, 2002, Dorset County Council Vertical Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO13401.

<3> GetMapping, 2014, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO14101.

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Jan 26 2018 7:50PM