A wide linear hollow way is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 running from a 19th century chalk pit (MWX3975) north-eastwards. The feature may be trackway associated with the pit or of earlier or even natural origin.
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A wide linear hollow way is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 (1) running from a 19th century chalk pit (MWX3975) north-eastwards. The feature may be trackway associated with the pit or of earlier or even natural origin. The feature has been plough-levelled and is visible as a cropmark on recent Google Earth imagery. It was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.
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<1> SDO13745
Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 04-NOV-1946. RAF/CPE/UK/1821 2435-6.
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Centred SY 8078 8129 (167m by 167m) (2 map features)
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SY88SW
Civil Parish
West Lulworth; Dorset
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Dorset
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None recorded
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None recorded
Record last edited
Oct 9 2014 2:14PM
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