Monument record MDO46790 - Possible medieval ridge and furrow, Combe Farm, Sturminster Marshall

Areas of possible ridged and ditched cultivation within fields to the west of Combe Farm, Sturminster Marshall, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs. Broad linear banks divide four separate areas within a historic field, these also visible as earthworks on current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features could potentially be ridge and furrow cultivation and field boundaries of medieval date and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Areas of possible ridged and ditched cultivation within fields to the west of Combe Farm, Sturminster Marshall, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs [1]. Broad linear banks divide four separate areas within a historic field - these are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Environment Agency lidar imagery [1, 2]. The features could potentially be ridge and furrow cultivation and field boundaries of medieval date and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project. The cultivation marks are no longer visible on available Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4244 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19959.

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

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Jul 18 2023 1:06PM