Monument record MDO42857 - Possible medieval field boundaries, Frampton, Frampton

Banked linear features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery to the northeast of Frampton. The features may be medieval field boundaries and lynchets, possibly incorporating part of a medieval strip field. They appear to overlie broader linear banks (MDO42856) that may be late prehistoric (Iron Age/Romano-British) in date, although it is possibly they are contemporary. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Banked linear features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery to the northeast of Frampton (1, 2). The features may be medieval field boundaries and lynchets, possibly incorporating part of a medieval strip field. They appear to overlie broader linear banks (MDO42856) that may be late prehistoric (Iron Age/Romano-British) in date, although it is possibly they are contemporary. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

<1> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-48, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4269-70 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16856.

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Nov 13 2020 12:48PM