Monument record MDO44257 - Medieval or post medieval cultivation marks, Tarrant Crawford and Shapwick

An extensive area of parallel cultivation marks is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs straddling the boundary between Tarrant Crawford and Shapwick. It is partially visible on recent lidar imagery and is considered to be medieval or post medieval ridge and furrow. The site was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project.

An extensive area of parallel cultivation marks is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs straddling the boundary between Tarrant Crawford and Shapwick [1-2] . It is partially visible on recent lidar imagery [3] and is considered to be medieval or post medieval ridge and furrow. The site was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 13-SEP-1982, OS/82203 V 194 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18307.

<2> Historic England Archive, 31-MAR-2016, HEA 29821/025 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18402.

<3> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Sep 4 2022 2:40PM