Monument record MDO38804 - Possible post medieval extractive pit, Blackenfields Farm, Broadwindsor

A possible post medieval extractive pit to the south of Blackenfields Farm, Broadwindsor, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s and on the latest Lidar imagery. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A possible post medieval extractive pit to the south of Blackenfields Farm, Broadwindsor, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s (1) and on the latest Lidar imagery (2). The site potentially extends over 185m in length, with two parallel scarps or lynchets at its western end. The site potentially forms one of a series of extractive pits in the vicinity, but it may also be partly natural geology. The potential quarrying appears overlain by later historic field boundaries (MDO38806 ). The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FP 1337-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14824.

<2> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, ST4303dtm.1m.acs (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

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Jul 26 2019 11:55AM