Monument record MDO41685 - Possible historic field boundary or trackway, New Barn Farm, Shapwick

A linear ditched feature to the southwest of New Barn Farm is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The feature corresponds with a historic banked curvilinear field boundary or trackway to the northeast and they may be associated, possibly being medieval to post medieval in date. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A linear ditched feature to the southwest of New Barn Farm is visible as a cropmark on 1940s aerial photographs (1).

The feature is narrow and slightly curvilinear in form and extends southwest for 163m from a historic field boundary recorded on the OS 1st Edition map (2). The feature potentially continues the line of a banked historic field boundary or trackway that is visible on the same 1940s aerial photographs to the northeast; it is not certain that the ditched linear forms part of one coherent feature with the field boundary/trackway but it is possible they are contemporary and therefore potentially medieval to post medieval in date.

The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 28-MAY-47, RAF/CPE/UK/2102 RP 3251-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16219.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

Record last edited

Sep 6 2018 1:10PM