Monument record MDO39448 - Medieval or later pillow mound, Alderholt Common, Alderholt

One of several mounds visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 on Alderholt Common. Possible site of a medieval or later pillow mound. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

One of several mounds visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 on Alderholt Common (1). Possible site of a medieval or later pillow mound. This is an elogated mound orientated roughly southeast -northwest, it is 341m by 7m with a flanking ditch and a linear bank and ditched feature running northweast for 65m . The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP. The site has since been ploughed (2) and the features are no longer visible on recent digital imagery (3).

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3050-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15432.

<2> Royal Air Force, 05-NOV-1960, RAF 543/1107 F42 0150-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15434.

<3> GetMapping, 2014, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO14101.

Record last edited

Sep 26 2017 11:24AM