Monument record MDO40888 - Post medieval drainage system, Grange, Holt

A series of interlinking ditched linear features at Grange are visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The features are presumed to be a post medieval drainage system with a central curvilinear features possibly having a dual function as a field boundary. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A series of interlinking ditched linear features at Grange are visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1). The features are presumed to be a post medieval drainage system with a central curvilinear features possibly having a dual function as a field boundary. The features occupy the whole of an irregular historic enclosure recorded on the OS 1st Edition map (2). The features are predominantly narrow and rectilinear in form, comprising a series of parallel southwest to northeast aligned linear ditches offsetting and perpendicular to a central curvilinear ditch. The features are presumed to be a post medieval drainage system with the central curvilinear ditch possibly having a dual function as a field boundary. The site is still open ground on current Google Earth imagery and the features are still faintly visible. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Record last edited

May 10 2018 9:45AM