Monument record MDO41586 - Possible medieval ridge and furrow, Cogden Elms, Corfe Mullen

Parallel ridges and ditches in a field at Cogden Elms, Corfe Mullen, are visible on current Lidar imagery. The features may be those of medieval ridge and furrow. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Parallel ridges and ditches in a field at Cogden Elms, Corfe Mullen, are visible on current Lidar imagery (1).

The features comprise broadly parallel N-S aligned banks an ditches situated within an irregular historic enclosure recorded on the OS 1st Edition map, whose slightly sinuous boundaries are likely to be predominantly medieval in origin (2). The features may be historic cultivation marks, possibly those of medieval ridge and furrow.

The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Environment Agency, xxx-xxx-2015, Geomatics Lidar DSM 50cm (Aerial Photograph). SDO16012.

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

Record last edited

Sep 3 2018 9:52AM