Monument record MDO39832 - Undated field system, Horton Common, Horton

A bank and ditched field system of uncertain origin is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 and 1989 on the eastern side of Horton Common. The features run on a completely different alignment to the modern system of fields and may be of medieval or even earlier origin. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP and appear to be cut by and therefore predate the trackways described in MDO39831.

A bank and ditched field system of uncertain origin is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 and 1989 on the eastern side of Horton Common (Royal Air Force 1946; Ordnance Survey 1989). The features run on a completely different alignment to the modern system of fields and may be of medieval or even earlier origin. Parallel banked linears within the north-easternmost field may be the remains of medieval strip fields. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP and appear to be cut by and therefore predate the trackways described in MDO39831.

Ordnance Survey, 05-MAY-1989, OS/89135 V 189-90 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15664.

Royal Air Force, 18-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1845 RS 4025-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15663.

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