Monument record MDO39810 - Historic trackways, Horton Heath, Horton

A series of ditched trackways are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 running WSW-ENE to the south of the Nursery on Horton Heath, Horton. They are considered likely to be of medieval or post medieval date and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

A series of ditched trackways are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 running WSW-ENE to the south of the Nursery on Horton Heath, Horton (1). They are considered likely to be of medieval or post medieval date and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP. The features are not visible on recent imagery and have possibly been levelled due to pasture improvement (2-3)

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4087-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15652.

<2> GetMapping, 2014, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO14101.

<3> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

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Feb 8 2018 10:08AM