MSO11875 - Post-medieval water meadow system at Ash Farm (Monument)

Water meadow system seen on aerial photographs at Ash Farm. [1] A post-medieval water meadow gutter drainage system, visible as curvilinear earthworks, was mapped from aerial photographs taken in 1947. The water meadow is centred at SS 8422 4789 on a northwest facing hillslope in fields immediately north of Ash Farm. A series of eight curvilinear earthwork ditches have been recorded which follow the contours of the north facing slope. The roughly parallel ditches carry water over and off the fields. Some of the ditches were still visible on aerial photographs taken in 1979. [2-5] This record was enhanced as part of the National Record of the Historic Environment to Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record data transfer project. [6]