Monument record MDO41842 - Historic field boundaries and drainage ditches, Tadden, Pamphill

Ditched linear features to the east of Tadden are visible on aerial photographs. The features are presumed likely to be historic drainage ditches and field boundaries of probable post medieval origin. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Ditched linear features to the east of Tadden are visible on aerial photographs (1-2).

The features comprise a series of narrow linear ditches, some of which are interlinked and feed into large sinuous drainage channels recorded on the OS 1st Edition map (3). The features are considered likely to be historic drainage ditches and/or field boundaries of probable post medieval origin.

The site is still open fields under crop on current Google Earth imagery and the features are still variously visible in certain years.They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 FS 2192-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16288.

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 FP 1113-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16298.

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

Record last edited

Sep 20 2018 10:38AM