Monument record MDO47019 - Medieval hollow way and possible drove road, Castle Hill, Lytchett Matravers

Banked and ditched curvilinear features in fields to the northeast of Castle Hill, Lytchett Matravers, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current lidar imagery. The features form a ditched and banked hollow way that skirts the northern edge of two historic fields to join the roads north and northwest out of Lytchett Matravers. At its southern end the feature funnels out before meeting the road. The feature is considered to possibly be a hollow way or drove way of probable medieval date. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Banked and ditched curvilinear features in fields to the northeast of Castle Hill, Lytchett Matravers, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current lidar imagery [1, 2]. The features form a ditched and banked hollow way that skirts the northern edge of two historic fields to join the roads north and northwest out of Lytchett Matravers. The northern bank is formed of the historic field boundaries. At its southern end the feature funnels out before meeting the road. A historic field boundary appears to truncate the featue about two thirds along. The feature is considered to possibly be a hollow way or drove way of probable medieval date. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4244 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19959.

<2> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

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Aug 16 2023 3:44PM