Monument record MDO5535 - Medieval or Post-Medieval Ponds at Mill Copse, Edmondsham

Three rectangular ponds, once separated by banks. In form, these earthworks appear to have been fish ponds, probably medieval. However, the place name raises the possibility that they may have been mill ponds. The pond structures are partially visible on lidar imagery and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

(14) PONDS (076115), in Mill Copse, lie in the valley of a stream which flows E. to the R. Crane. They cover 1 1/2 acres and comprise three embanked rectangles, now dry, separated by cross-banks or dams which have been broken. The form suggests fish-ponds although the name of the copse implies that they were mill-ponds. <1>

The pond structures are partially visible on lidar imagery and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP. <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 18 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(14) Ponds (076115), in Mill Copse, lie in the valley of a stream which flows E. to the R. Crane. They cover 1½ acres and comprise three embanked rectangles, now dry, separated by cross-banks or dams which have been broken. The form suggests fish-ponds although the name of the copse implies that they were mill-ponds.'

<2> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 50cm (Aerial Photograph). SDO15306.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213717 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 2 2023 3:22PM