Monument record MDO41540 - Historic drainage ditches and trackways, Sleight, Corfe Mullen

Ditched linear features to the south of Sleight, Corfe Mullen, are visible on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery. The features are presumed to be predominantly post medieval drainage ditches, although a well-defined curving linear in the centre of the site may alternatively be a historic trackway or field boundary of medieval to post medieval date. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Ditched linear features to the south of Sleight, Corfe Mullen, are visible on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery (1-3).

The features are presumed to be predominantly post medieval drainage ditches, although a well-defined curving linear in the centre of the site may alternatively be a historic trackway or field boundary of medieval to post medieval date.

The site is still open fields on current Google Earth imagery but the majority of 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 3250-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16171.

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-Jan-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 V 5142-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16184.

<3> Environment Agency, xxx-xxx-2015, Geomatics Lidar DSM 50cm (Aerial Photograph). SDO16012.

Record last edited

Aug 30 2018 3:48PM