HER Record


HER ID: 68239, Series Of Anti-Landing Ditches

HER Summary: Anti-landing ditches identified by LIDAR survey

HER Category: Monument

HER Web Link: No link available


Investigation Activities

  • Type: Lidar Survey

    Description: A LIDAR survey was carried out in 2009 by the Unit for Landscape Modelling at Cambridge on behalf of the New Forest National Park and District Council. The resolution was 0.5 accurate to +/- 1m horizontally and 0.15m +/- vertically. Mapping of features was undertaken by the New Forest National Park authority.

    Date Range: 2009 - 2009

  • Type: Lidar Survey

    Description: A LIDAR survey was carried out in 2009 by the Unit for Landscape Modelling at Cambridge on behalf of the New Forest National Park and District Council. The resolution was 0.5 accurate to +/- 1m horizontally and 0.15m +/- vertically. Mapping of features was undertaken by the New Forest National Park authority.

    Date Range: 2009 - 2009


Historic Events

  • Type: Created

    Classification: Aircraft Obstruction

    Form: No information available

    Description: An extensive area of anti landing ditches, part of a network of such ditches dug on this area of land. Presumably these may have been accompanied by adjacent banks, but there is no evidence for these anymore. Photo taken looking north along longest N-S se (interpreted by New Forest National Park Authority)

    Date Range: 1939 - 1945

  • Type: Created

    Classification: Aircraft Obstruction

    Form: No information available

    Description: An extensive area of anti landing ditches, part of a network of such ditches dug on this area of land. Presumably these may have been accompanied by adjacent banks, but there is no evidence for these anymore. Photo taken looking north along longest N-S se (interpreted by New Forest National Park Authority)

    Date Range: 1939 - 1945