Monument record MDO50267 - Medieval field system, strip field, ridge and furrow, Belchalwell Street, Okeford Fitzpaine

Banked linear features are visible as earthworks to the southwest of Belchalwell Street, Okeford Fitzpaine, on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features are considered to be part of a medieval and later field system, incorporating areas of medieval strip field and ridge and furrow of medieval origin. They were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Banked linear features are visible as earthworks to the southwest of Belchalwell Street, Okeford Fitzpaine, on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1947; EA 2018). The features appear in the main to conform to the historic field pattern, comprising removed field boundaries of probable medieval origin, some possibly of later, post medieval, date. One area of probable ridge and furrow is also visible on lidar (EA 2018). They conform to two curvilinear field boundaries recorded on the OS Epoch 1 25 inch map and still extant on a 1940s aerial photograph (OS c1880; RAF 1947). Some curvilinear boundaries to the east of the area form narrow curving strips and are probably part of an area of former medieval strip field. The features were digitally recorded during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

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

Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RP 3176 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21725.

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

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Feb 19 2026 12:27PM