Monument record MDO31337 - Historic or modern trackways, Middlebere Heath, Arne

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Summary

Features visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and LiDAR imagery and interpreted as a group of historic or modern trackways. Later fieldwork by Terrain Archaeology showed these features to be boundary banks and ditches.

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A group of historic or modern trackways are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs (1-2) and Lidar imagery (3) of Middlebere Heath, Arne. These features were digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.


Bellamy, P, 2024, Snag Valley, Purbeck, Dorset: Archaeological Monitoring and Recording during Restoration of Snag Valley Lower Site, September - October 2024 (Unpublished document). SDO21059.

<1> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4402-03 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13647.

<1> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4403-04 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13642.

<1> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4404-05 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13636.

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 20-MAY-1970, RC8R043 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13638.

<3> Geomatics, 2011, Lidar DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13637.

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  • --- Unpublished document: Bellamy, P. 2024. Snag Valley, Purbeck, Dorset: Archaeological Monitoring and Recording during Restoration of Snag Valley Lower Site, September - October 2024.
  • <1> Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 04-NOV-1946. RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4404-05.
  • <1> Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 04-NOV-1946. RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4403-04.
  • <1> Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 04-NOV-1946. RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4402-03.
  • <2> Aerial Photograph: Royal Commission on Historic Monuments. 20-MAY-1970. RC8R043.
  • <3> Aerial Photograph: Geomatics. 2011. Lidar DTM.

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Location

Grid reference Centred SY 9551 8480 (1032m by 381m) (47 map features)
Map sheet SY98SE
Civil Parish Arne; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Record last edited

May 6 2025 1:39PM

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