Monument record MDO40434 - Historic field system, Knowle Hill Farm, Woodlands

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Summary

A series of banked field lynchets are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and lidar imagery in fields to the east of Knowle Hill Farm. They include a series of parallel banks at SU40371099 which may be the remains of medieval ridge and furrow. The features are considered to be the remains a medieval or post medieval field system, they were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

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Full Description

A series of banked field lynchets are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and lidar imagery in fields to the east of Knowle Hill Farm (1-2). They include a series of parallel banks at SU40371099 which may be the remains of medieval ridge and furrow. The features are considered to be the remains a medieval or post medieval field system, they were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.


<1> Royal Air Force, 27-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2038 RS 4248-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15815.

<2> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 27-APR-1947. RAF/CPE/UK/2038 RS 4248-9.
  • <2> Aerial Photograph: XX-XXX-2015. Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m.

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Location

Grid reference SU 0380 0977 (point) (10 map features)
Map sheet SU00NW
Civil Parish Woodlands; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Other Statuses/References

  • None recorded

Record last edited

Mar 22 2018 9:17AM

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