Monument record MDO47020 - Post medieval trackway, Castle Hill, Lytchett Matravers

Ditched curvilinear features in a field to the northeast of Castle Hill, Lytchett Matravers, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current lidar imagery. The feature meets with a historic trackway to the southwest, recorded on the OS 1st Edition map. It is considered likely to also be a trackway, probably of post medieval origin. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Ditched curvilinear features in a field to the northeast of Castle Hill, Lytchett Matravers, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current lidar imagery [1, 2]. The feature meets with a historic trackway to the southwest, recorded on the OS 1st Edition map, and skirts the north side of a post medieval extractive pit. It is considered likely to also be a trackway, probably of post medieval origin. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 05-MAR-1945, RAF/106G/LA/163 RP 3074 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19968.

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

Record last edited

Aug 17 2023 1:44PM