Monument record MDO38711 - Post medieval extractive pit , Higher Park Farm, Marshwood

A small hollow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the south east of Higher Park Farm. It is 21m across and marked as a Old Chalk Pit on the OS 1st edition map. The feature is considered likely to be an extractive pit of post medieval origin. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A small hollow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the south east of Higher Park Farm (1) It is 21m across and marked as a Old Chalk Pit on the OS 1st edition map (2). The feature is considered likely to be an extractive pit of post medieval origin. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP and is still visible as a low earthwork on recent Google Erath imagery (3).

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FP 1411-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14800.

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

<3> Google Earth, 2010, Vertical Aerial Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO14600.

Record last edited

Jul 26 2019 11:39AM