Monument record MDO38560 - Post medieval extractive pit, Cockpit, Broadwindsor

A post medieval extractive pit measuring around 35m by 24m is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s. It is one of a group of three small extractive pits either side of Cockpit Hill, the other two (MDO 38561) lying within Pilsdon CP. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A post medieval extractive pit measuring around 35m by 24m is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s (1). It is one of a group of three small extractive pits either side of Cockpit Hill to the northeast of Pilsdon Pen, the other two (MDO 38561) lying within Pilsdon CP. The extractive pit is still visible on vertical aerial photographs taken in 2009 (2) and on the latest Google Earth imagery (3). The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11 APR 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FS 2409-10 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14772.

<2> Dorset County Council, XX-XXX-2009, Dorset CC Vertical Digital Photo Tile (Aerial Photograph). SDO13314.

<3> Google Earth, 2006, Google Earth vertical photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO14562.

Record last edited

Jul 26 2019 11:20AM