Monument record MDO40743 - Possible Iron Age or Romano-British field system, Cottage Farm, Colehill

A series of ditched linear features to the northeast of Cottage Farm, Colehill, are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The features may be part of a late prehistoric field system, possibly of Iron Age or Romano-British date. Alternatively, it is possible they are field boundaries and/or trackways of possible medieval or post -medievl origin. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A series of ditched linear features to the northeast of Cottage Farm, Colehill, are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (1).

The features comprise narrow curvilinear and rectilinear ditches that interlink and cross each other at irregular intervals and angles. The features are aligned along a broadly southeast to northwest axis and do not appear to correspond with adjacent historic boundaries of probable medieval origin. It is possible that they are field boundaries and perhaps trackways that form part of a late prehistoric field system of Iron Age or Romano-British date, although a later origin is also possible.

The features are no longer visible on current Google Earth imagery. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> National Monuments Record, 08-AUG-78, NMR 1305/197-8 SU0300/001 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15930.

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Apr 23 2018 10:52AM