Monument record MDO43004 - Possible Iron Age field boundaries and trackway, Poor Lot, Batcombe

Linear banked and ditched features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs to the northeast of Poor Lot, Batcombe. The features are within an area of post medieval quarrying (MDO43001; 43002; 43003) and may also be extractive in origin, although their character and proximity to nearby areas of Iron Age field systems may indicate an older origin for some of these features, which may alternatively be field boundaries and/or trackways of prehistoric date. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Linear banked and ditched features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs to the northeast of Poor Lot, Batcombe (1, 2). The features comprise one predominant 120m long double banked linear on a SW-NE axis, adjoined by additional linear scarps and banks running perpendicular to this. The features are within an area of post medieval quarrying (MDO43001; 43002; 43003) and may also be extractive in origin, although their character and proximity to nearby areas of Iron Age field systems may indicate an older origin for these features, which may alternatively be field boundaries and/or trackways of prehistoric date. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The features are still visible on current Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1056-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17007.

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN--48, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RP 3366-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17009.

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Feb 2 2021 12:39PM