Monument record MDO38972 - Medieval field system, Pitt Farm, Whitchurch Canonicorum

A series of linear scarps, possibly forming a system of cultivation terraces of medieval origin, are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1948, to the south west of Little Pitt, Pitt Farm, Whitchurch Canonicorum. The features run roughly along the contour and were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP. They have been mainly plough-levelled and only slight scarps still visible as an extant earthworks on recent Google Earth imagery.

A series of linear scarps, possibly forming a system of cultivation terraces of medieval origin, are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1948, to the south west of Little Pitt, Pitt Farm, Whitchurch Canonicorum <2>. The features run roughly along the contour and include a unit of ridge and furrow described separatedly in MDO38973. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP. The features have been mainly plough-levelled and only slight scarps still visible as an extant earthworks on recent Google Earth imagery <3>.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Unpublished revision RCHME Dorset I (West) Undated (Whitchurch Canonicorum file) (Unpublished document). SDO19065.

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4179-80 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14832.

<3> Google Earth, 2008, Digital Vertical Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO14816.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 859389 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Dec 18 2022 1:38PM