Monument record MDO40094 - Iron Age and Romano-British trackway, Matterley Drove Farm, Woodlands

A linear ditched feature is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs to the south of Matterley Drove Farm. It is considered to be a later prehistoric or Roman trackway and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

SU 0247 0909. A linear feature, probably representing a Prehistoric or Roman trackway, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs, and has been mapped by EH's Knowlton Circles Project. The trackway is 587m long (SU 0217 0923 - SU 0247 0909 - SU 0266 0895), defined by ditches, with a central hollow or traffic rut. It appears to be associated with a group of rectilinear enclosures (SU 00 NW 100) and two possible square barrows (SU 00 NW 98, SU 00 NW 99). <1-3> A linear ditched feature is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs to the south of Matterley Drove Farm <4-6>. It is considered to be a later prehistoric or Roman trackway and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP. The linear runs for over 600m in a roughly easterly direction towards the field system and settlement described in records MDO6491 and MDO40090.

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Feb 19 2023 8:55AM