Monument record MDO32124 - Post medieval drainage or land improvement, Chaldon Herring

Post medieval drainage or land improvement works are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s in the southern area of Chaldon Herring.

Post medieval drainage or land improvement works are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s in the southern area of Chaldon Herring. The drains are formed of narrow linear ditches predominantly oriented north-south. They are visible over an area measuring approximately 270 m by 160 m. (1-2) The drains are not visible on aerial photographs of 2009. They have partly been built over and the drains in open land may have been levelled by this time. (3) These features were digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 21-JAN-1945, RAF 106G/LA/105 1071-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13865.

<2> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3270-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13851.

<3> Dorset County Council, XX-XXX-2009, Dorset CC Vertical Digital Photo Tile (Aerial Photograph). SDO13314.

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Aug 22 2024 4:43PM