Monument record MDO42827 - Medieval field system, Maiden Newton, Maiden Newton

Banked and ditched linear features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery in fields to the southwest of Maiden Newton, Maiden Newton. The features are considered likely to be field boundaries associated with a strip field system of probable medieval date. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Banked and ditched linear features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery in fields to the southwest of Maiden Newton, Maiden Newton (1, 2). The features are considered likely to be field boundaries associated with a strip field system of probable medieval date. They may be part of a more extensive field system that continues on the south side of the road (MDO42317). The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-48, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4275-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16843.

<2> Google Earth, XX-XXX-2010, Google Earth 2010 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16568.

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Dec 4 2020 11:21AM