Monument record MDO4604 - CULTIVATION REMAINS

'(11) CULTIVATION REMAINS. The date of enclosure of the two open-field systems in the parish is unknown. Remains of the open fields of West Pulham exist in two places. Some 350 yds. S.E. of Lipgate Farm (706079) is the S. part of a block of flat stripes, 15 yds. To 20 yds. Wide. Further traces of ridge-and-furrow can be seen on air photographs (R.A.F. CPE/UK 1974: 1186-9), around the village.
Remains of the open fields of East Pulham occur 300 yds. N. of Manor Farm (725097), where a small block of ridge-and-furrow 7 yds. Wide is overlain by modern field hedges. Further traces can be seen on air photographs to S.E. and N.E. of East Pulham.' (1)

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 234 (Monograph). SDO136.

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