Monument record MDO45377 - Undated trackways, Hemsworth, Witchampton

Linear cropmarks are visible to the east of Hemsworth, Witchampton, on a 1996 aerial photograph. The features may be trackways of uncertain date and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Recent aerial photography reveals the cropmarks of two linear features, possibly forming a trackway of uncertain date, visible from ST 973 056 to ST 971 059. <1>

Linear cropmarks are visible to the east of Hemsworth, Witchampton, on a 1996 aerial photograph <2>. The features comprise two slightly curvilinear parallel ditches, just over 250m in length and running SW-NE, which may be part of a trackway of uncertain date (also recorded under NRHE Hob UID 1079978). A further right-angled linear ditch on a SW-NE alignment to the north of this possible trackway may be contemporary, possibly a further trackway or alternativel an associated field boundary.

The features overlie, and presumably post-date, a Bronze Age barrow cemetery and a later prehistoric field system, so could date anywhere between the later prehistoric and post-medieval periods. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Miller, Andrew, RCHME/EH/HE Aerial Photographers comment AM (Verbal communication). SDO17356.

<1.1> NMR ST 9705/7-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19344.

<2> National Monuments Record, 25-JUL-1996, NMR 15560/22 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19301.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1079978 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 3 2023 12:03PM