Monument record MDO38401 - Historic settlement or drainage features, Redhouse Farm, Higher Eype, Symondsbury

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A complex of conjoined rectilinear bank and ditched enclosures is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery at Redhouse Farm, Higher Eype. The enclosures are 12-35m across. They are considered to be of medieval or post medieval date, possibly settlement or drainage features. They were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

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A complex of conjoined rectilinear bank and ditched enclosures is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery at Redhouse Farm, Higher Eype (1-2). The enclosures are 12-35m across. They are considered to be of medieval or post medieval date, possibly settlement or drainage features. They were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

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  • <1> Aerial Photograph: Environment Agency. 2010. Lidar DTM. sy4492_dtm_1m.asc.
  • <2> Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 22-JAN-1948. RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RP 3168-9.

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Grid reference SY 44549 92159 (point) (16 map features)
Map sheet SY49SW
Civil Parish Symondsbury; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Record last edited

Jul 26 2019 9:30AM

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