Monument record MDO2654 - Drove road, Eype Down, Symondsbury

A series of deeply incised trackways are located on the northeastern edge of Eype Down. They form part of a wider system of trackways on the Down. The features were digitally plotted from aerial photographs and lidar imager during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

'(25) Earthworks, on the N. slope of Eype down ¾ m. S.W. of the church, consist of a series of banks and ditches following roughly the 300 ft. contour and some 200 ft. below the summit. The whole system was no doubt produced, over a long period, by a series of alternative trackways on the hillside.' (1)

A series of deeply incised trackways are located on the northeastern edge of Eype Down. They form part of a wider system of undated trackways on the Down. The features were digitally plotted from aerial photographs and lidar imagery during the Marshwood Vale NMP (2-3).

This site is the same as MWX3046.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 239 (Monograph). SDO97.

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RP 3168-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14702.

<3> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DSM, sy4492_dtm_1m.asc (Aerial Photograph). SDO13147.

Record last edited

Jul 8 2016 10:04AM