Monument record MDO7182 - Undated field system, Bere Regis

An extensive series of bank and ditched field boundaries are visible as cropmarks and low earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery to the northwest of Hazel Copse. They cover an area of over 50 hectares and are of uncertain (prehistoric or medieval) origin. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

(Area centred SY 8597 9593) Field system taken from air photographs, January to March 1949. <1>

No trace of field system in grass field at one time under the plough. <2>

An extensive series of bank and ditched field boundaries are visible as cropmarks and low earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery to the northwest of Hazel Copse <4-5>. They cover an area of over 50 hectares and are of uncertain (prehistoric or medieval) origin. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM.

<1> Atkinson, R J C, 1949, spec 6 inch (RJCA 1.3.49) (Map). SWX1583.

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 12-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455775 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<4> National Monuments Record, 05-SEP-1995, NMR 15411/06 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19888.

<5> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Sep 27 2023 8:19PM