Monument record MDO40835 - Probable post medieval trackways, Furzehill, Colehill

Dtched linear features in fields on the northwest side of Furzehill, Colehill, are visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The features are considered to be historic trackways of probable post medieval date. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Dtched linear features in fields on the northwest side of Furzehill, Colehill, are visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1).

The features traverse from northwest to southeast a historic enclosure recorded on the OS 1st Edition map (2)

The features are narrow and rectilinear in form and are considered likely to be trackways of probable post medieval date.

The site is still open ground on current Google Earth imagery but 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 RP 3102-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15955.

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

Record last edited

May 1 2018 2:30PM