Monument record MDO40089 - Prehistoric boundary or track, Matterley Drove Farm, Woodlands

A linear feature is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs running roughly north-south for 230m to the south of Matterley Drove Farm. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP and is possibly a boundary or trackway of prehistoric origin.

SU 0264 0887. A broad ditch or hollow way, probably representing a Prehistoric or Roman field boundary or short trackway, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs, and has been mapped by EH's Knowlton Circles Project. The feature is straight and about 99.5m long. <1>

A linear feature is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <2-4> running roughly north-south for 230m to the south of Matterley Drove Farm. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP and is possibly a boundary or trackway of prehistoric origin.

<1> John Boyden, 02-JUL-1976, JRB 3097/2 (NMR SU0209/7) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15721.

<2> Royal Air Force, 27-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2038 RS 4246-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15734.

<3> 18-MAR-1970, NMR 179/177-80 (NMR SU 0208/1) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15731.

<4> GetMapping, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12563.

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, AF1339047 (Index). SDO14738.

EH: Knowlton Circles, Dorset

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1409968 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 19 2023 8:34AM