Monument record MDO39718 - Post medieval drainage system, Sopley Common, Hurn

A series of narrow linear ditched features visible on Sopley Common on 1940s aerial photographs may be part of a post medieval drainage system. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

A series of narrow linear ditched features visible on Sopley Common on 1940s aerial photographs may be part of a post medieval drainage system (1). The linear ditches are overlain at their south end by a small area of probable post medieval extraction (MDO39716).

The features are clearly visible on a 2002 vertical aerial photograph (2) and still visible on current Google Earth imagery.

The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 28-MAY-47, RAF/CPE/UK/2102 RS 4281-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15576.

<2> Dorset County Council, 2002, Dorset County Council Vertical Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO13401.

Record last edited

Nov 7 2017 10:57AM