Monument record MDO43843 - Later prehistoric linear earthwork, Shapwick

A linear ditched boundary is visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project.

A linear banked boundary is visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery <3-4> running for 900m SW-NE to the north of Crab Farm. It crosses/is crossed by the linear described in MDO43841. A group of ditched enclosures and field boundaries to the south of this junction respect the alignments of the two boundaries (MDO43842). It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project.

ST 94820249 to NE and possibly to NW. Linear feature visible on air photographs, overall length 810? M. Intersects [ST 90 SE 103] at 95350295; probably integral with [ST 90 SE 42]. [Air photograph transcription plan]. The feature merges with the ditched complex N of [ST 90 SW 33] and with partly scarped line (?fields) [ST 90 SW 18]. <1-2>

<1> Bowen, H C, 1990, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke, 42-3 (Monograph). SWX800.

<1.1> Royal Air Force, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 3147 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19357.

<1.2> BKS Surveys Ltd, NMR VAP (BKS) ST 9502/1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19356.

<2> Bowen, H C, 1991, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke: Inventory, 2 (Monograph). SDO14864.

<3> National Monuments Record, 02-JUN-2006, NMR 24222/24 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18114.

<4> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 871910 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 26 2024 12:16PM