Monument record MDO48987 - Prehistoric field boundaries, Little Puddle Bottom, Piddlehinton

Fragments of a banked field system are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery to the south and southeast of Holcombe Barn, Little Puddle Bottom, Piddlehinton. The features are considered likely to be of a later prehistoric field system, and are part of a wider field system described in MDO790. The boundaries cover an area of over 30 hectares and were digitally recorded during the Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

Two parallel banked linears are visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery running along the slope at the eastern end of Little Puddle Bottom, Piddlehinton. The features appear to underly the medieval cultivation marks described in MDO1893 and are therefore considered to be prehistoric strip lynchets. They were digitally recorded during the Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. <1>

<1> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

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