Monument record MDO43005 - Possible Iron Age field boundaries, Poor Lot, Batcombe

Linear banked and ditched features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs to the northwest of Poor Lot, Batcombe. The features may be field boundaries of prehistoric origin, possibly Iron Age in date. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Linear banked and ditched features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs to the northwest of Poor Lot, Batcombe (1, 2). The features comprise a broad linear bank running SSW to NNE across the middle of a historic field, with a series of slighty curvilinear banks and ditches running perpendicular to it and parallel to each other, on a broadly SSE-NNW axis. They may be field boundaries of prehistoric origin, possibly Iron Age/Romano-British in date. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The features are still visible on current Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1056-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17007.

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN--48, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RP 3366-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17009.

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Feb 2 2021 1:48PM