Monument record MDO40740 - Probable post medieval drainage system, Colehill

A series of ditched linear features in a field at Colehill are visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The features are considered likely to be part of a post medieval drainage system, although alternatively they may be agricultural features, possibly field boundaries or strip field boundaries of medieval to post medieval date. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A series of ditched linear features in a field at Colehill are visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1).

The features comprise narrow rectilinear and curvilinear ditches aligned east to west across the width of a historic enclosure present on the 1st Edition map and set broadly parallel to one another between 20m and 30m apart. The features are presumed to be part of a post medieval drainage system but alternatively may be agricultural features of medieval to post medieval date; perhaps strip field boundaries.

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, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4105-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15928.

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Apr 20 2018 2:20PM