Monument record MDO41495 - Post medieval drainage ditches, Eye Mead, Pamphill

Ditched linear features at Eye Mead, Pamphill, are visible on aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery. The features are presumed to be drainage ditches of probable post medieval date. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Ditched linear features at Eye Mead, Pamphill, are visible on aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery (1-2).

The features comprise sections of narrow linear ditches located across two post medieval to modern fields. The majority of features clearly link into adjacent historic drainage channels and/or streams present on the OS 1st Edition map, including the River Stour to the northwest (3).

The features are presumed to be drainage ditches of probable post medieval date.

The site is still open fields on current Google Earth imagery. Some of the features are stll faintly visible. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 V 5194-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16151.

<2> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 50cm (Aerial Photograph). SDO15306.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

Record last edited

Aug 28 2018 3:50PM