Monument record MDO39925 - Historic field system and trackways, Potterne Hill Nature Reserve, Verwood

Bank and ditched linear features are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946, in the vicinity of what is now Potterne Hill Nature Reserve, Verwood. The features are considered to be the remains of a medieval or later fields system , they were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

Bank and ditched linear features are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946, in the vicinity of what is now Potterne Hill Nature Reserve, Verwood (1). The features are considered to be the remains of a medieval or later fields system , they were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP. The northern portion of the site has been destroyed by modern housing (2), the southern half includes an enclosure marked on the OS 1st edition map (3) which is partially still extant under scrub (4).

<1> Royal Air Force, 18-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1845 RS 4023-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15677.

<2> GetMapping, 2014, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO14101.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<4> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

Record last edited

Feb 14 2018 8:27PM