Monument record 15844 - Agricultural and Other Earthworks at Chorley Bank

<1> Environment Agency, 2003-2020, Environment Agency LiDAR Surveys, Composite DSM 1m 2022 (Digital Archive). SCH7819.

An area containing four distinct blocks of ridge and furrow. The triangular are to the south displays a slight curve, possibly aratral. The adjacent block is straighter. Overall width is circa five metres. To the north is a north-west to south-east aligned narrow block approximately 30 metres wide. The ridge and furrow displays a slight curve and average width is four metres. To the immediate north-east, and separated by a possible headland, is a block of regular ridge and furrow orientated at ninety degrees and with an average width of six metres.

In places, the ridge and furrow is truncated by earthworks of later marl pits. Later field boundaries, surving as ditches generally appear to respect the blocks of ridge and furrow except, possibly, at the south-eastern end of the narrow block. Here, the earthworks suggest a small enclosure which may be the site of a house or farmstead.

<2> Bluesky International Ltd, 2015-2017, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Bluesky International APGB Imagery 2015-2017, SJ5549, SJ5550, SJ5649, & SJ5560, 08/08/2015 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8848.

Clearly visible on this aerial imagery.

<3> The GeoInformation Group, 2005, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review (Aerial Photograph). SCH4608.

Clearly visible on these aerial photographs as part of a much more extensive landscape of multiple period ridge and furrow earthworks.