Monument record MDO40770 - Historic field boundaries, Canford Bottom, Colehill

Ditched and banked linear features at Canford Bottom are visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The features are presumed to be historic field boundaries of probable post medieval date, although an earlier origin is also possible. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Ditched and banked linear features at Canford Bottom are visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1).

The features are narrow and rectilinear in form and comprise a banked linear that extends between two historic field boundaries to sub-divide a large historic enclosure present on the OS 1st Edition map (2). Two further ditched linears in an adjacent historic enclosure to the east are aligned north to south either side of a field barn. These linears align with the adjacent historic field boundaries and also sub-divided that enclosure. The features are therefore presumed to be field boundaries of probable post medieval date, although an earlier origin is possible.

The site is under housing on Cutlers Place and Jessopp Road on current Google Earth imagery and the features are no longer visible. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4105-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15928.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

Record last edited

Apr 26 2018 11:08AM