Monument record MDO5162 - Ditched enclosures or field boundaries, Tarrant Rushton

Part of a rectilinear enclosure visible as earthworks on an oblique aerial photograph taken by Francesca Radcliffe in May 1991 and as a cropmark on aerial photographs dated 2005. The enclosure has narrow, slightly sinuous ditches to the south and west but its northern and eastern extents cannot be discerned in adjacent fields. It encloses an area measuring at least 300 metres north east - south west by at least 112 metres north west - south east. The visible south western corner firms a sharp, well defined angle. The record for this monument has been enhancesd with support from Wessex Water. The enclosure appears to be part of a fragmented field system and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project.

Enclosure visible as earthworks on aerial photograph (FR63/35) taken by Francesca Radcliffe on 27 May 1991.
The enclosure appears to be part of a fragmented field system and was digitally plotted from aerial photographs (3) during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project.

<1> Radcliffe, F M, Oblique aerial photographs, FR63/35, 27 May 1991 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13178.

<2> GetMapping, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12563.

<3> National Monuments Record, 13-JUL-1995, NMR 15315/53 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18312.

Record last edited

Aug 16 2022 6:55PM