Monument record MDO43069 - Possible medieval drove road, Frome Park Coppice, Frome St Quintin

Two linear banked features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs to the northeast of Frome Park Coppice, Frome St Quintin. The features are broadly parallel with a slight funnel shape at their southwest end. The northeast end ends at Long Ash Lane, opposite the entrance to a trackway recorded as a medieval drove road (MDO1200). The features may be a predecessor to, or a continuation of, the drove road where it opens out into a small coombe, formerly part of a medieval deer park (MDO1192). They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Two linear banked features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs to the northeast of Frome Park Coppice, Frome St Quintin (1-3). The features are approximately 120m in length and broadly parallel with a slight funnel shape at their southwest end, which corresponds with a small break in the boundary bank containing Frome Park Coppice. The bank was formerly a section of the park pale enclosing a medieval deer park (MDO1192). The northeast end ends at Long Ash Lane, opposite the entrance to a trackway recorded as a medieval drove road (MDO1200). The features may be a a predecessor to, or a continuation of, the drove road, although it is not known if, or in what way, it may be associated with the former deer park. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The features are still visible as cropmarks on current Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 15-APR-45, RAF/106G/LA/218 FS 2017 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17034.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1057-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17003.

<3> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RS 4382-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17037.

Record last edited

Feb 16 2021 12:56PM