Monument record MDO37321 - Prehistoric linear ditches, Chalbury

Two roughly parallel linear ditches visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 2005. They are considered to be of later prehistoric in date and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

Two slightly meandering ditches running roughly east-west and visible as cropmarks on digital aerial photographs taken in 2005 (1). The cropmarks cannot be discerned clearly in adjacent fields, so the extent of the ditches is not known. The ditches run more or less parallel and are around eleven metres apart. The southern ditch is larger, approximately four metres wide, and the northern ditch around 2.5 metres wide, and both appear quite irregular. These features were digitally plotted as part of the Dorset Stour NMP. The boundary runs for 360m and at its eastern end abuts the rectilinear enclosure described in MDO40078 before appearing to continue south as a single ditched feature (2).

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Feb 23 2018 9:51AM