Monument record MDO49729 - Possible medieval field boundaries, cultivation, Child Okeford

Several banked linear features and a single curvilinear ditched feature are visible as earthworks to the southwest of Child Okeford on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features partly infill historic field plots recorded on the OS Epoch 1 25 inch c1880s map but others do not conform precisely to the historic pattern and alignment. Some closely set broad linear banks might be those of medieval ridge and furrow cultivation but the features are more generally considered to be field boundaries of potentially medieval origin, possibly doubling as drainage ditches to the south, closer towards the river floodplain. The features were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Several banked linear features and a single curvilinear ditched feature are visible as earthworks to the southwest of Child Okeford on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1947; EA 2018). The features partly infill historic field plots recorded on the OS Epoch 1 25 inch c1880s map (OS c1880) but others do not conform precisely to the historic pattern and alignment. Some closely set broad linear banks might be those of medieval ridge and furrow cultivation but the features are more generally considered to be field boundaries of potentially medieval origin, possibly doubling as drainage ditches to the south, closer towards the river floodplain. The features were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 1 (Map). SDO10239.

Royal Air Force, 16-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1924 RS 4327 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21499.

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

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Dec 1 2025 3:53PM