Monument record MDO40893 - Probable post medieval trackways, Bothenwood, Holt

Ditched linear features to the south of Bothenwood are visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The features may be historic trackways of probable post medieval date, although some may alternatively be post medieval field boundaries. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Ditched linear features to the south of Bothenwood are visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1).

The features comprise three linear ditches which are narrow and rectilinear in form. The features are aligned with each other on a northeast to southwest axis and cross two historic enclosures recorded on the OS 1st Edition map and whose boundaries may include those of medieval origin, with some post medieval sub-division (2). The features align with these probable post medieval boundaries and are considered likely to be historic trackways, also of probable post medieval origin. Two shorter linear ditches may alternatively themselves be post medieval field boundaries.

The site is still open ground on current Google Earth imagery and the features are still faintly visible.

The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3103-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15953.

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

Record last edited

May 10 2018 3:19PM