Ancient Enclosure Boundaries in Queen's Park
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Ancient Enclosure Boundaries in Queen's Park
Image: © Stephen James Taken: 11 Sep 2003
After a dry summer these ancient enclosure boundaries show up in turf scorch marks. They have been surveyed (see www.QPIPS.org.uk ) and found to be part of a network of enclosures, probably abandoned in the medieval period, and certainly long before the relatively modern 1805 enclosures.
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Image Location
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50.740111
Longitude
-1.84831