Monument record MDO40507 - Historic cultivation marks or drainage, Purewell, Christchurch

Ditched linear earthworks in fields at Purewell are visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The features may represent cultivation marks or drainage features of probable post medieval date, although an earlier origin is also possible. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Ditched linear earthworks in fields at Purewell are visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1).

The features are situated within fields whose historic boundaries are present on the OS 1st Edition map. They comprise broadly parallel ditches between 7m and 10m apart and aligned with the adjacent historic field boundaries. The features are considered to represent cultivation marks or drainage features of probable post medieval date, although an earlier origin is also possible.

The features are no longer visible on current Google Earth imagery. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 V 5017-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15405.

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Mar 27 2018 12:13PM