Monument record MDO43105 - Possible post medieval field boundaries, The Crofts Down, Sydling St Nicholas

Narrow linear banked features are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on Crofts Down, Sydling St Nicholas. The features may be historic field boundaries of possible post medieval date. They appear to overlie an earlier prehistoric field system (MDO2625). The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Narrow linear banked features are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on Crofts Down, Sydling St Nicholas (1-3). The features comprise narrow banks that form regular rectilinear enclosures on a broadly SE-NW axis. They appear to overlie an earlier prehistoric field system (MDO2625) and may be historic field boundaries of possible post medieval date. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The features are still visible on 2002 Google Earth imagery (4).

<1> Royal Air Force, 15-APR-45, RAF/106G/LA/218 FP 1038 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17063.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FS 2379-80 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17066.

<3> Pan Government Agreement, 07-JAN-2009, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (Aerial Photograph). SDO16858.

<4> XX-XXX-2002, Google Earth (Aerial Photograph). SDO11868.

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Feb 24 2021 12:02PM