Monument record MDO48172 - Medieval strip field, Up Cerne

Banked curvilinear features in fields to the southwest of Up Cerne are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. The features are considered to be part of a medieval strip field -several of the lynchets appear to continue those on Seldon Hill to the southwest, recorded under MDO2814. They may be part of a medieval strip field associated with the medieval manor and settlement at Up Cerne. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM project.

Banked curvilinear features in fields to the southwest of Up Cerne are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs [1, 2]. The features are considered to be part of a medieval strip field - several of the lynchets appear to continue those on Seldon Hill to the southwest, recorded under MDO2814. They may be part of a medieval strip field associated with the medieval manor and settlement at Up Cerne. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM project.

Only a few of the features remain visible on current Environment Agency lidar imagery [3], suggesting substantial reduction by plough action.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1049 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20741.

<2> National Archaeological Survey, 06-DEC-1966, NAS 9842/ORACLEF10 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20747.

<3> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

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Dec 30 2024 11:45AM