Monument record MDO49578 - Medieval ridge and furrow, strip field, Okeford Fitzpaine

An area of ridge and furrow cultivation interspersed by linear banked and ditched field boundaries are visible as earthworks to the east of Okeford Fitzpaine on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features probably form part of a former medieval field system, possibly an area of former strip fields. They were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

An area of ridge and furrow cultivation interspersed by linear banked and ditched field boundaries are visible as earthworks to the east of Okeford Fitzpaine on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1947; EA 2018). The features form narrow linear plots and are probably part of a former medieval field system, possibly an area of former strip fields. They were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Royal Air Force, 23-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1944 FP 1329 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21513.

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

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Nov 24 2025 4:33PM