Monument record MDO45695 - Possible field system, Sixpenny Handley

A series of features possibly representing a field system were noted during work along the course of a gas pipeline. The features comprised a lynchet described as 4 metres in length (?width) and 0.5 metres deep, plus a series of ditches. Unfortunately, the published account does not include a site plan. No finds were retrieved, and the features are therefore effectively undated, although a later prehistoric or Roman date would be in keeping with other field systems in the area.

ST 968136. A lynchet 4.0m long and 0.5m deep, and five ditches were cut by the Southern Feeder. Two ditches were parallel, one of them being a double or recut ditch 10.5m wide and 2.0m deep. Remnants of a field system ? <1>

<1> Catherall, P, Barnett, M, and McClean, H, 1984, The Southern Gas Feeder: the Archaeology of a Gas Pipeline, 190-1 (Monograph). SDO16637.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 912604 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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