First post here, I was just browsing around my local area on the NLS side-by-side view and spotted this on the 1m DTM LiDAR. It's pretty close to some neolithic, saxon and roman sites but it looks a bit irregular. The second image is from the OS six inch 1840-1880 of the same spot, it marks and old lime kiln but doesn't show any specific features in that spot.
I wondered if anyone might be able to help interpret a couple of features (A - the thumbprint-like oval in the top left and B, the connected boxes of differing sizes in the bottom right) that showed up on this lidar map?
For context, the purple dashed line on the left is the route of a Roman road. The blue line breaking of this was revealed to be a Roman or possibly pre-Roman track (not quite a road!) by an exploratory archaeological trench dug a couple of decades ago.
Old maps from the early 1800s show the land a mile or so to the east used to be a bog and that a stream ran through the centre of site A. Both of these are no longer present.
Google Earth images showing crop marks of the sites are also included.
I wondered if Site A was a geological feature (e.g. long vanished lake) however given its proximity to the ancient track wondered if it could actually be an earthwork/enclosure? I’m erring to Site B being field markings, however they’re a bit haphazard and thicker than ones I’ve seen elsewhere? Any thoughts?
I'd been looking at these features in the yellow box for a while. Having just been told about the HER in another post, I've just discovered that these lie beside or on the route of a conjectured route of a Roman road (roughly my green line). Pretty cool.