Monument record MDO43006 - Possible medieval trackway, lynchets, Baker's Moor, Batcombe

Banked and ditched curvilinear features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs to the southwest of Baker's Moor, Batcombe. The features are situated on a low southwest facing slope and may be lynchets and a trackway, probably of medieval to post medieval date, although an earlier, perhaps prehistoric, origin for some features is also possible. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Banked and ditched curvilinear features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs to the southwest of Baker's Moor, Batcombe (1). The features are situated on a low southwest facing slope and may comprise a trackway of possible medieval to post medieval date, with rough lynchets along the east side of this. These features may be contemporary lynchets, or possibly older, perhaps prehistoric in origin. These banked features are faint and irregular, however, and maybe alternatively of natural geological origin.

The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The features are still visible on current Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1057-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17003.

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Feb 2 2021 2:14PM