Monument record MDO50043 - Possible medieval ridge and furrow, Okeford Fitzpaine

An area of ridge and furrow cultivation associated with banked and ditched field boundaries is visible as earthworks on Okeford Hill on aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features are considered to be of possible medieval date and were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

An area of ridge and furrow cultivation associated with banked and ditched field boundaries is visible as earthworks on Okeford Hill on aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1947; RAF 1947; EA 2018). The features are considered to be of possible medieval date and were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 RS 4025 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21601.

Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 RS 4169 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21600.

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

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