Monument record MDO50563 - Medieval field system, strip field, ridge and furrow, Chitcombe Farm, Woolland

Areas of medieval ridge and furrow cultivation, strip field, and field boundaries within the bottoms to the southwest of Chitcombe Farm, Woolland, are visible as banked and ditched earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features probably form part of a former medieval open field system, perhaps with some later elements, and were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Areas of medieval ridge and furrow cultivation, strip field, and field boundaries within the bottoms to the southwest of Chitcombe Farm, Woolland, are visible as banked and ditched earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1945; RAF 1945; EA 2018). The features probably form part of a former medieval open field system, perhaps with some later elements, and were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Royal Air Force, 27-MAR-1945, RAF/106G/LA 200 FP 1068 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21695.

Royal Air Force, 27-MAR-1945, RAF/106G/LA200 FS 2068 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21689.

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

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Feb 17 2026 2:00PM