Monument record MDO40565 - Possible post medieval drove road, Holfleet Cottage, Burton

Ditched linear features to the southeast of Holfleet Cottage,Winkton, are visible as cropmarks on 2006 aerial photographs. The features are considered to be historic trackways or possibly part of a drove road of medieval or post medieval origin. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

The cropmarks of a double-ditched linear feature of uncertain date seen on aerial photographs. This feature could be seen extending ENE-WSW between SZ 1671 9582 and SZ 1698 9630 for approximately 560m across parts of three fields. The ditches are approximately 10m-15m apart. The north-western ditch is straight, the south-eastern ditch narrower. <1> Ditched linear features to the southeast of Holfleet Cottage,Winkton, are visible as cropmarks on 2006 aerial photographs <2>. The features comprise two parallel ditched linears, of rectilinear form and around 2m wide and 8.8m apart. The linears run from southwest to northeast across a large modern enclosure shown as two smaller historic enclosures on the OS 1st Edition map. The easternmost linear is broken in places and its northeast end has a more irregular slightly curvilinear form. The features are considered likely to be historic trackways or possibly part of a drove road of medieval or post medieval origin. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

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