Monument record MDO41626 - Post medieval field system, Holt Heath, West Moors

An extensive system of relict fields is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery on the eastern edge of Holt Heath, immediately to the west of Newman's Lane. The system is partially marked within heath on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition map and is therefore considered to be post medieval in date. It was perhaps abandoned in 18th or 19th centuries. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

An extensive system of relict fields is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery on the eastern edge of Holt Heath, immediately to the west of Newman's Lane (1-3). The system is partially marked within heath on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition map (4) and is therefore considered to be post medieval in date. It was perhaps abandoned in 18th or 19th centuries. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 18-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1845 V 5025-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16205.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 16-MAY-1966, OS/6662 V 057-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16207.

<3> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

Record last edited

Sep 4 2018 10:00AM