Monument record MDO42226 - Historic trackway, Lower KIngcombe, Toller Porcorum

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Summary

A double-banked linear feature is visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery running for over 480m in a roughly easterly direction from Lower Kingcombe. The feature approximately follows the line of a footpath marked on the Ordnanace Survey 1st edition map and is considered to be a medieval or post medieval trackway. It was digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project .

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Full Description

A double-banked linear feature is visible as low earthworks on lidar imagery running for over 480m in a roughly easterly direction from Lower Kingcombe [1]. The feature approximately follows the line of a footpath marked on the Ordnanace Survey 1st edition map [2] and is considered to be a medieval or post medieval trackway although an earlier origin is possible. It was digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project .


<1> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

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

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Photograph: Environment Agency. XX-XXX-2019. LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN.
  • <2> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1864, 1886. Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one. paper. 1:2500.

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Location

Grid reference SY 5587 9911 (point) (10 map features)
Map sheet SY59NE
Civil Parish Toller Porcorum; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Other Statuses/References

  • None recorded

Record last edited

Apr 30 2020 1:36PM

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