Monument record MDO43822 - Post medieval drainage system, Tarrant Monkton

Linear ditched features along the River Tarrant at Tarrant Monkton are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs. The features are considered to be water channels and drainage ditches forming part of a post medieval drainage system, possibly linked to an area of post medieval water meadow (MDO43821) to the south. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A Post Medieval water channel is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <1>. It is centred at ST 9467 0867, extends for nearly 500m, between ST 9461 0890 and ST 9461 0845, and is roughly parallel to and between 45m and 85m east of the river Tarrant. The water channel feeds the main carrier drain for a Post Medieval water meadow system situated to the south (see ST 90 NW 143 / UID: 1478946). Several linear water channels and drains extend perpendicularly or diagonally between the water channel and the river, although much of this area is flooded on the available aerial photographs and this flood water may obscure features such as further water meadows. <2>

Linear ditched features along the River Tarrant at Tarrant Monkton are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs <1>. The features are considered to be water channels and drainage ditches forming part of a post medieval drainage system, possibly linked to an area of post medieval water meadow (MDO43821) to the south. Some of the features are still visible on current lidar imagery <3>.

The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 V 5151 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18053.

<2> Bishop, Sharon, 2009, Tarrant Launceston 15 & Environs. Aerial Photograph Survey & Analysis (Unpublished document). SDO12459.

<3> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1478948 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 30 2024 10:41AM