Monument record MDO39475 - Medieval or later pillow mound, Alderholt

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Summary

Possible site of a medieval or later pillow mound. The feature is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946, it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

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Possible site of a medieval or later pillow mound. The feature is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946, it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP. This is an elogated mound orientated roughly east-west, it is 20m by 8m with a flanking ditch. The features is probably still extant but under trees on recent imagery (2).

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  • <1> Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 12-DEC-1946. RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4052-3.
  • <2> Aerial Photograph: GetMapping. 2014. Digital vertical aerial photographs.

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Location

Grid reference SU 10585 12493 (point) (4 map features)
Map sheet SU11SW
Civil Parish Alderholt; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Record last edited

Sep 27 2017 9:49AM

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