Monument record MDO25434 - Linear banks on Friar Waddon Hill, Portesham

A group of linear banks of uncertain date and function are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. They are considered likely to be the remains of field boundaries. Possibly detected in the Winterbourne Abbas Corridor Geophysical Suvey in 2017 (EDO7852).

A group of linear banks of uncertain date and function are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs {1}. They are considered likely to be the remains of trackways or lynchets. These features were digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Possibly detected in the Winterbourne Abbas Corridor Geophysical Suvey in 2017 (EDO7852). However, the magetrometry returns were weak and not well resolved from field 216B.

Roseveare, M J, 2017, Visual Impact Provision (VIP) Project – Dorset, Geophysical Survey Report (Unpublished document). SDO18127.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-1-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1063-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11906.

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