Monument record MDO38640 - Post medieval extractive pit, Childhay Manor Farm, Broadwindsor

A large post medieval extractive pit to the southwest of Childhay Manor Farm is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs taken in the 1940s. The extractive pit may be associated with a post medieval brickworks to the southeast, shown on the OS 1st Edition historic mapping. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A large post medieval extractive pit to the southwest of Childhay Manor Farm is visible as an earthwork around 78m long on aerial photographs taken in the 1940s (1). The extractive pit may be associated with a post medieval brickworks to the southeast, shown on the OS 1st Edition historic mapping (2). The extractive pit is shown as a pond on the latest Google Earth imagery (3). The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RS 4409-10 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14785.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

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

Record last edited

Jul 26 2019 11:29AM