Monument record MDO43197 - Medieval or earlier field boundaries, Rampisham

A series of low scarped lynchets are visible as linear and curvilinear earthworks on aerial photographs taken to the southwest of West Woods Farm, Rampisham. The features may be field boundaries or lynchets of medieval or earlier date and were digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project.

A series of low scarped lynchets are visible as linear and curvilinear earthworks on aerial photographs taken to the southwest of West Woods Farm, Rampisham [1, 2]. The features run loosley parallel on a SW-NE alignment, broadly perpendicular to the historic field pattern but corresponding with the strongest linear boundaries, such as roads or primary field divisions. They may be field boundaries or lynchets of medieval or earlier date and were digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project. The features are still visible on Google Earth imagery.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 04-SEP-1986, OS/86227 V 947-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16681.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1062-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17086.

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Mar 11 2021 9:19AM