Monument record MDO24794 - Trackways, Winterbourne Steepleton

(SY 625892) Traces of strip fields. <1>

Two prominent scarps, presumable old lynchets, centred at SY 62518928, form the boundaries of a narrow strip of waste ground on a steep south-facing slope. They are up to 3.0m. high; one is 250 metres long, the other 150 metres long. <2>

A group of probable trackways of probable post medieval date are visible as cropmarks and earthwork banks on aerial photographs <3-5> and LIDAR <6>. These features were digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, Map in end pocket (Monograph). SDO149.

<2> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 28-APR-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<3> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 3067-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11792.

<4> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 4277-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11870.

<5> Royal Air Force, 17-1-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3091-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11887.

<6> 24-1-2008, LIDAR D0089655 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11876.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452542 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Oct 26 2023 1:14PM