Monument record MDO46938 - Possible medieval to post medieval field system, West Park Farm, Lytchett Matravers

Banked curvilinear features to the southwest of West Park Farm, Lytchett Matravers, are visible as soilmarks on 1940s aerial photographs and as cropmarks on Google Earth imagery. The features are considered likely to be field boundaries and possibly trackways that form part of a field system of possible medieval to post medieval origin, although a prehistoric date for the field boundaries is also possible. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Banked curvilinear features to the southwest of West Park Farm, Lytchett Matravers, are visible as soilmarks on 1940s aerial photographs and as cropmarks on Google Earth imagery [1, 2]. Some of the features are respected by irregular areas of ridged and ditched cultivation marks, possibly medieval ridge and furrow (MDO46936). The features also appear to respect a medieval drove way (MDO7833) that runs from west to east along the southern edge. The features are considered likely to be field boundaries and possibly trackways that form part of a field system of possible medieval to post medieval origin, although a prehistoric date for the field boundaries is also possible. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 05-MAR-1945, RAF/106G/LA/163 RP 3076 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20033.

<2> Google Earth, 01-JAN-2002, Google Earth Imagery 2002 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19438.

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