Monument record MDO37605 - Flint pit, Winterborne Houghton

Extractive pit shown on the 1st Epoch 25-inch scale Ordnance Survey map, on which it is described as 'Flint Pit'. A post medieval extractive pit is visible as a sub-circular ditched earthwork to the southwest of Houghton Wood on Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature is recorded as an old 'flint' pit on the OS Epoch 1 25 inch map of c1880. It was digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Extractive pit shown on the 1st Epoch 25-inch scale Ordnance Survey map, on which it is described as 'Flint Pit' (OS c1880).

A post medieval extractive pit is visible as a sub-circular ditched earthwork to the southwest of Houghton Wood on Environment Agency lidar imagery (EA 2018). The feature is recorded as an old 'flint' pit on the OS Epoch 1 25 inch map of c1880 (OS c1880). It was digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 1 (Map). SDO10239.

Environment Agency, xx-xxx-2018, Environment Agency National Lidar Programme DTM 1M (Aerial Photograph). SDO21483.

Record last edited

Dec 30 2025 1:13PM