A system of parallel bank and ditched features are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 and 1947 to the east of Gatemore Farm, East Knighton. The features appear to be the remains of a medieval or post medieval field system or water meadow.
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A system of parallel bank and ditched features are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 and 1947 to the east of Gatemore Farm, East Knighton (1-2). The features appear to be the remains of a medieval field system or post medieval water meadow. The site was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.
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<1> SDO13232
Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 07-JAN-1947. RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1041-2.
<2> SDO13239
Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 04-NOV-1946. RAF/CPE/UK/1821 6423-4.
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Centred SY 80760 85779 (400m by 470m) (38 map features)
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SY88NW
Civil Parish
Winfrith Newburgh; Dorset
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Dorset
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Record last edited
Feb 26 2014 3:43PM
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