Monument record MDO25950 - Chesters Hill, cultivation ridges

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Extensive cultivation ridges of medieval or post medieval date are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on Chesters Hill.

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Extensive cultivation ridges of medieval or post medieval date are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on Chesters Hill from Shipmoor Piont to Walls Down {1-2}. The parallel features were digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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  • <1> Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 04-NOV-1946. RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3319-20.
  • <2> Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 24-JAN-1942. RAF/S740 5011.

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Grid reference Centred SY 5846 8338 (1687m by 655m) (27 map features)
Map sheet SY58SE
Civil Parish Abbotsbury; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Record last edited

Feb 27 2012 5:31AM

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