Monument record MDO39440 - Historic trackways, Cranborne Common, Alderholt

A extensive series of trackways are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 cutting across Cranborne Common. They are considered to be ancient routeways across the common possibly originating in the post medieval, medieval or even earlier periods. Some of the trackways are now under modern planation but others are still visible on recent digital photographs. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

A extensive series of trackways are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 cutting across Cranborne Common (1-2). They are considered to be ancient routeways across the common possibly originating in the post medieval, medieval or even earlier periods. Some of the trackways are now under modern plantation but others are still visible on recent digital photographs (3). The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3053-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15431.

<2> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3052-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15430.

<3> GetMapping, 2014, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO14101.

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Oct 3 2017 9:51AM