Monument record MDO21660 - Great Hogleaze: ridge and furrow

Parallel linear features are visible on aerial photographs as earthworks overlying the extensive Iron Age/Romano-British field system described in MDO1168. These features are considered likely to be cultivation marks of broad medieval ridge-and-furrow.

Parallel linear features are visible on aerial photographs as earthworks overlying the extensive Iron Age/Romano-British field system described in MDO1168. These features are considered likely to be cultivation marks of broad medieval ridge-and-furrow, some of which has, in turn, been ploughed in narrow rig. {1-2} This broad ridge-and-furrow on the downland probably represents a temporary or sporadic extension of cultivation beyond the limits of the permanent arable in the medieval period or, possibly, later. Modern ploughing is completing the work of destruction throughout the whole group. The remains have been further disturbed by numerous small quarries and chalk pits, now disused (MDO21255-57). {3}

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Jan 18 2012 6:01AM