A group of linear ditches are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The features appear to respect the modern field pattern and are considered likely to be drainage ditches or field boundaries of post medieval or later date.
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A group of linear ditches are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs {1-2}. The features appear to respect the modern field pattern and are considered likely to be drainage ditches or field boundaries of post medieval or later date. Alternatively they could also be the remains of trackways. They were digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.
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<1> SDO11913
Aerial Photograph: 1-2-1968. MAL 68052-3.
<2> SDO11925
Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 17-1-1947. RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1065-7.
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Centred SY 62186 85154 (396m by 448m) (8 map features)
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SY68NW
Civil Parish
Portesham; Dorset
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Dorset
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None recorded
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None recorded
Record last edited
Mar 6 2012 12:10PM
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