Monument record MDO42479 - Medieval cultivation marks, Lower Wraxall

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Summary

Medieval ridge and furrow cultivation is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1970 in fields to the southwest of Lower Wraxall. The features are still visible on Google Earth photographs taken in 2017 and they were digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project.

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Medieval ridge and furrow cultivation is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1970 in fields to the southwest of Lower Wraxall [1]. The features are still visible on Google Earth photographs taken in 2017 [2] and they were digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project.

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  • <1> Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 14-JUN-1970. OS/70216 V 252-3.
  • <2> Aerial Photograph: Google Earth. 2017. Google Earth 2017.

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Location

Grid reference ST 5715 0050 (point) (4 map features)
Map sheet ST50SE
Civil Parish Wraxall; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Record last edited

Mar 3 2021 10:53AM

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