Monument record MDO49562 - Medieval ridge and furrow, strip field system, Shillingstone

Extensive areas of ridge and furrow cultivation interspersed by linear banked and ditched field boundaries are visible as earthworks to the southwest of Shillingstone on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features probably form part of an area of former medieval strip field system, probably part of Shillingstone's medieval open field. The features cover an area of around 76 hectares and were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Extensive areas of ridge and furrow cultivation interspersed by linear banked and ditched field boundaries are visible as earthworks to the southwest of Shillingstone on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1947; RAF 1947; EA 2018). The features probably form part of an area of former medieval strip field system, probably part of Shillingstone's medieval open field. The features cover an area of around 76 hectares and were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FS 2172 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21504.

Royal Air Force, 23-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1944 FP 1327 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21505.

Environment Agency, xx-xxx-2018, Environment Agency National Lidar Programme DTM 1M (Aerial Photograph). SDO21483.

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