Monument record MDO47027 - Post medieval farmstead, Sandy Lane, Lytchett Matravers

Sections of broken linear banked features to the west of Sandy Lane, Lytchett Matravers, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs. The features correspond with the site of a small farmstead of probable post medieval date, recorded but not named on the OS 1st Edition map. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Sections of broken linear banked features to the west of Sandy Lane, Lytchett Matravers, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs [1]. The features comprise of probable field boundary and boundary banks that correspond with the site of a small farmstead of probable post medieval date, recorded but not named on the OS 1st Edition map [2]. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project. The features are no longer visible on 2021 APGB imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 05-MAR-1945, RAF/106G/LA/163 RP 3072 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19967.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

Record last edited

Aug 17 2023 4:54PM