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Summary

Earthworks associated with a possible shrunken settlement potentially of medieval origin are visible on images derived from lidar data as banks, hollows, terraces and enclosures on the south-east facing slopes below Worthy Farm, Rackenford.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• SHRUNKEN VILLAGE? (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD (Between) to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

Environment Agency, 2021, University of Exeter Understanding Landscapes Project - Lidar visualisation (Cartographic). SDV366001.

Banks, hollows, terraces and enclosures are visible as earthworks.

Hegarty, C., 2025, Comment on Unlocking Landscapes project and related lidar and aerial photograph interpretations (Interpretation). SDV366411.

Banks, hollows, terraces and enclosures are visible on images derived from lidar data. The earthworks possibly represent former field boundaries, tracks, building platforms and infield associated with a previously more extensive settlement adjacent to Worthy Farm, potentially of medieval origin. Curvilinear earthworks centred on circa SS84291902 and SS84271903 may indicate building platforms. A possibly enclosed hollow centred on SS84331898 may indicate a former farmyard accessed by a trackway from the south-east.

Horner, B., 2025, Lidar interpretation (Personal Comment). SDV366415.

Possible circular/ring earthworks and relic boundaries.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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