Monument record MDO38448 - Post medieval quarrying, Sloes Hill, Symondsbury

Sloes Hill Quarry is marked at this location on the OS 1st edition map. A large area of shallow extraction is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1948. Low irregular earthworks are still visible on more recent aerial photographs and lidar imagery. The features were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

Sloes Hill Quarry is marked at this location on the OS 1st edition map. A large area of shallow extraction is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1948 (1). Low irregular earthworks are still visible on more recent aerial photographs and lidar imagery (2-3). The features cover an area of 1.2 hectares, they were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RP 3168-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14702.

<2> Dorset County Council, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs, SY4493.ecw (Aerial Photograph). SDO12570.

<3> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, sy4493_dtm_1m.asc (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

Record last edited

Jul 26 2019 9:36AM