Monument record MDO43036 - Medieval field boundaries, lynchets, Church Farm, Hillfield

Banked curvilinear features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs in a field to the southeast of Church Farm, Hillfield. The features comprise sections of curvilinear banks that appear to curve round a natural slope of ground. They are considered likely to be field boundaries or lynchets of probable medieval date. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Banked curvilinear features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs in a field to the southeast of Church Farm, Hillfield (1, 2). The features comprise sections of curvilinear banks that appear to curve round a natural slope of ground. They are considered likely to be field boundaries or lynchets of probable medieval 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 1052-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17029.

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-48, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RP 3362-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17028.

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Feb 10 2021 10:06AM