Monument record MDO47000 - Possible medieval field boundaries and ridge and furrow, Lytchett Matravers

Ridged and ditched linear features within fields to the east of St Mary's Church, Lytchett Matravers, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs. The features are associated with banked curvilinear boundaries and might be those of medieval ridge and furrow, bordered by field boundaries also of potentially medieval origin. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Ridged and ditched linear features within fields to the east of St Mary's Church, Lytchett Matravers, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs [1, 2]. The features are associated with banked curvilinear boundaries and might be those of medieval ridge and furrow, bordered by field boundaries also of potentially medieval origin. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.The features are no longer visible on available Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 RP 3202 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20051.

<2> Royal Air Force, 05-MAR-1945, RAF/106G/LA/163 RP 3074 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19968.

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Aug 15 2023 12:11PM