Monument record MDO981 - Medieval cultivation remains, Dewlish Park, Dewlish

A series of banked field boundaries are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery within Dewlish Park. They are considered likely to be the remains of a medieval field system and are associated with parallel features, possibly ridge and furrow; they were digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project.

A series of banked field boundaries are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery within Dewlish Park (2). They are considered likely to be the remains of a medieval field system and were digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM Project. It is part of a wider system of medieval fields to the south of Dewlish village.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 88 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(9) Cultivation remains. Little is known of the open fields of the parish. There were certainly an East and a West Field (Tithe Map 1844) but most of the parish was already enclosed by 1819, when what little remained of the formerWest Field was finally enclosed (Award and Map, 1819, D.C.R.O.). Ridge-and-furrow, probably of the old West Field, remains in Dewlish Park (768972).
Evidence of temporary cultivation beyond the open fields is found in the form of ridge-and-furrow up to 6 yds. Wide on Whitelands Down (767986) and from 7 yds. To 9 yds. Wide on South Down (781968)'.

<2> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

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Sep 18 2024 6:06PM