Monument record MDO41063 - Possible post medieval narrow ridge and furrow, Little Canford, Ferndown Town

An area of parallel ditched and ridged cultivation at Little Canford is visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The features may be those of post medieval narrow ridge and furrow.They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

An area of parallel ditched and ridged cultivation at Little Canford is visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1).

The features comprises parallelridges set around 4m apart with 1m wide ditches in between. The extent of area is bounded by extant historic field boundries to the north and west and by the earthworks of former historic field boundaries (MDO41062) to the south and at the northwest corner.

The features may be those of post medieval narrow ridge and furrow.

The site is still partially open ground on current Google Earth imagery, although it is now dissected by Ham Lane; the B3073. In open ground the features remain faintly visible. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4160-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16010.

Record last edited

May 25 2018 1:04PM