Monument record MDO41613 - Probable post medieval drainage ditches, Corfe Mullen

Ditched linear features at Corfe Mullen are visible on aerial photographs. The features are presumed to be post medieval drainage ditches. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Ditched linear features at Corfe Mullen are visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1).

The features are narrow and rectilinear in form and are situated on an area of open ground recorded as heathland on the OS 1st Edition map (2). They are presumed to be post medieval drainage ditches.

The site is under trees 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 4249-50 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16185.

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

Record last edited

Sep 3 2018 2:02PM