Monument record MDO30282 - Post medieval drainage ditches, Chicks Hill Farm , East Stoke

A group of parallel linear ditches are visible here as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs of fields to the east of Chicks Hill Farm. They are considered liekly to be the remains of post medieval drainage ditches

A group of parallel linear ditches are visible here as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs of fields to the east of Chicks Hill Farm (1-2). They are considered liekly to be the remains of post medieval drainage ditches. These feature were digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project. Some of these features are still visible as cropmarks on the most recent aerial images available to the project, the remainder are now under modern conifer plantation

<1> Royal Air Force, 21-JAN-1945, RAF 106G/LA/105 2037-38 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13227.

<2> Pan Government Agreement, 2008, PGA (Aerial Photograph). SDO13137.

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Feb 13 2014 11:48AM