Monument record MDO40773 - Historic field boundaries, Canford Bottom, Colehill

Ditched linear features at Canford Bottom, Colehill, are visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The features are presumed to be historic field boundaries of probable post medieval date, although an earlier origin is also possible. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Ditched linear features at Canford Bottom, Colehill, are visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1).

The features are narrow and variously rectilinear and slightly curvilinear in form.They align with and sub-divide historic enclosures recorded on the OS 1st Edition map and whose broadly regular boundaries indicate a possible post medieval origin (2). The features are therefore presumed to be historic trackways of probable post medieval date, although an earlier origin is possible..

The site is under housing on Canford View Drive on current Google Earth imagery and the features are no longer visible. 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.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

Record last edited

Apr 26 2018 11:43AM