Monument record MDO44323 - Undated field system Shapwick

A series of banked field boundaries are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs and earthworks on lidar imagery to the west of Swan Way, Shapwick. They are considered to form part of a field system of uncertain (prehistoric or medieval/post medieval) date and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project.

A series of banked field boundaries are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs and earthworks on lidar imagery to the west of Swan Way, Shapwick [1-3]. They are considered to form part of a field system of uncertain (prehistoric or medieval/post medieval) date which covers an area of over 29 hectares and extends to the east of Swan Lane in MDO44331. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 13-SEP-1982, OS/82203 V 196 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18308.

<2> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 24-APR-1988, OS/88055 V 159 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18494.

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Sep 9 2022 6:23PM