Medieval or later trackways are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs running northwest-southeast for 1.2km across West Holme and Povington Heaths.
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Medieval or later trackways are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs running northwest-southeast for 1.2km across West Holme and Povington Heaths (1-3). The site is still partially visible as earthworks on recent Google Earth imagery, it was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.
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<1> SDO13725
Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 15-MAY-1996. OS OS/9625 8942-3.
<2> SDO13706
Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 04-NOV-1946. RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4419-20.
<3> SDO13707
Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 15-MAY-1996. OS 9625 8933-4.
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Location
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Centred SY 88116 84553 (619m by 1223m) (60 map features)
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SY88SE
Civil Parish
East Stoke; Dorset
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Steeple with Tyneham; Dorset
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Dorset
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None recorded
Record last edited
Sep 10 2014 3:51PM
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