Monument record MDO39625 - Post medieval or later trackway, Hurn Airfield, Hurn, Christchurch

A ditched trackway in the northeast part of Hurn Airfield is visible on 1940s aerial photographs. It is likely to be post medieval in origin, although a later date is possible. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

A ditched trackway in the northeast part of Hurn Airfield are visible on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery (1 and 2).

The trackway appears to be an extension of a trackway to its west, shown on the OS 1st Edition map (2). It is likely to be post medieval in origin, although a later date is possible. The extended trackway runs from the west to the southeast to meet a ditched and banked historic field boundary, also shown on the OS 1st Edition map and still extant in sections in 1946 (1 and 2).

The trackway is below trees on current Google Earth imagery (3).

It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4168-72 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15525.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<3> Google Earth, 2017, Google Earth 2017 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15388.

Record last edited

Oct 9 2017 4:08PM