Monument record MDO43023 - Possible Iron Age field boundary, Church Farm, Batcombe

A banked linear feature is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs within a field to the east of Church Farm, Batcombe. The feature may be a field boundary, potentially of prehistoric (Iron Age?) date, although a later origin is possible. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

A banked linear feature is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs within a field to the east of Church Farm, Batcombe (1). The feature comprises a 40m section of broad low bank, slightly curvilinear in character and extending into a historic field from the northern field edge. It may be a field boundary of potetnially prehistoric (Iron Age?) date, although a later (Medieval?) origin is also possible. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The feature is still visible on current Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1054-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17013.

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Feb 3 2021 4:15PM