Monument record MDO41595 - Post medieval trackways, Corfe Hills, Corfe Mullen

Ditched linear features on open ground at Corfe Hills, Corfe Mullen, are visible on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery. The features are presumed to be historic trackways of probable post medieval date. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Ditched linear features on open ground at Corfe Hills, Corfe Mullen, are visible on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery (1-2).

The features comprise several sections of irregular linear ditches, on a broadly SE-NW alignment, on an area of open ground recorded as open heathland on the OS 1st Edition map (3). The features are presumed to be historic trackways of probable post medieval date.

The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3198-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16170.

<2> Environment Agency, xxx-xxx-2015, Geomatics Lidar DSM 50cm (Aerial Photograph). SDO16012.

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

Record last edited

Sep 3 2018 12:01PM