Monument record MDO41446 - Medieval field system, Sturminster Marshall

The earthworks of a field ystem of probable medieval date is visible to the northeast of Sturminster Marshall is visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The features comprise ditched and banked field boundaries clearly respected by areas of ridged and ditched cultivation; probably medieval ridge and furrow. Some of the field boundaries are contiguous to additional ditched linear features considered likely to be later, probably post medieval, drainage ditches. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

The earthworks of a field ystem of probable medieval date is visible to the northeast of Sturminster Marshall is visible on 1940s aerial photographs (RAF 1946).

The features comprise ditched and banked field boundaries clearly respected by areas of ridged and ditched cultivation; probably medieval ridge and furrow. Some of the field boundaries are contiguous to additional ditched linear features considered likely to be later, probably post medieval, drainage ditches.

The site is still open fields on current Google Earth imagery and many of the features remain visible. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Earthworks associated with this monument remain faintly visible in 2022 LiDAR imagery (Environment Agency 2022).

Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4147-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16132.

Environment Agency, 2022, LiDAR Composite Viewer - Digital Terrain Model 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO21777.

Record last edited

Jul 1 2026 10:37AM