Monument record MDO41789 - Probable historic field boundary, Kingston Lacy, Pamphill

A banked linear feature to the southwest of Kingston Lacy Park is visible on aerial photographs. The feature is considered likely to be a historic field boundary of probable medieval to post medieval date. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A banked linear feature to the southwest of Kingston Lacy Park is visible on aerial photographs <3>.

The feature is broad and slightly curvilinear in form. It extends NE to SW across a historic enclosure recorded on the OS 1st Edition map, dividing it <4>. The feature is considered likely to be a historic field boundary of probable medieval to post medieval date, although it may alternatively be a trackway of similar date.

The site is still fields on current Google Earth imagery, although the feature is no longer visible. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

ST 95650207 to NNE. Linear ditch, with second ditch parallel 7m away on W side for 50m at S end. Length 670m. Skirts barrow [ST 90 SE 52]. <1-2>

<1> Bowen, H C, 1990, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke, 43 (Monograph). SWX800.

<1.1> NMR VAP (BKS) ST 9500/1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19354.

<2> Bowen, H C, 1991, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke: Inventory, 2 (Monograph). SDO14864.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 14-JUN-81, OS/81016 263-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16276.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

Record last edited

Feb 6 2023 12:54PM