Monument record MDO29001 - Historic trackways and drainage ditches, Ower Heath, Corfe Castle

A group of linear and rectilinear ditches are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs of Ower Heath. They are considered likely to be the remains of trackways and drainage ditches of probable medieval or post medieval date.

A group of linear and rectilinear ditches are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs of Ower Heath (1-3). They are considered likely to be the remains of trackways and drainage ditches of probable medieval or post medieval date. They were digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset). Some of these features are still partially visible as cropmarks on the most recent comprehensive imagery available to the project (4).

<1> Royal Air Force, 24-JUN-1952, RAF/58/901 F10 5008-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12780.

<2> Royal Air Force, 20-OCT-1971, RAF/39/3812 0038-39 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12779.

<3> National Monuments Record, 31-JUL-1996, NMR SY 9985/4 15482/07 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12781.

<4> Google Earth, 2013, Google Earth 2013 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12686.

Record last edited

Aug 2 2013 1:47PM