Monument record MDO39860 - Historic trackway or possible Late Iron Age or Romano-British field boundary, Brockington Down, Gussage All Saints

A banked linear feature visible on Brockington Down on Current Lidar imagery may be associated with a historic trackway or droveway of medieval or post medieval origin. Alternatively it may be an extension of a Late Iron Age to Romano-British field system to the southwest.The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A banked linear feature visible on Brockington Down on Current Lidar imagery (1).

The banked linear extends northeast from a trackway leading northeast from Gussage All Saints, shown on the OS 1st Edition map (2) and cut by a later modern field boundary, still extant. It is likely to be associated with a historic trackway or droveway of medieval or post medieval origin but it is on broadly the same alignment as an extensive banked Late Iron Age to Romano-British field system to the southwest (MDO39859) and may alternatively be a boundary feature associated with this monument.

The features are located within modern cropping fields and may be vulnerable to ploughing. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

French, C A I, 2003, Investigations of earlier prehistoric settlement in the upper Allen valley, Dorset (Unpublished document). SDO21180.

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

Record last edited

Dec 10 2024 3:11PM