Monument record MDO38856 - Post medieval extractive pits or dewponds, Prime Coppices, Whitchurch Canonicorum

Two hollows are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs immediately to the south of Prime Coppices. They are considered likely to be post medieval extractive pits or dewponds. The features were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

Two hollows are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs immediately to the south of Prime Coppices (1). They are considered likely to be post medieval extractive pits or dewponds. The eastern pit is still visible as an extant earthwork on lidar imagery (2). The features were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP. The western pit lies within an area of cultivation ridges described in MDO38857 although the relationship between the two features is uncertain.

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4210-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14828.

<2> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, sy3896_dtm_1m.asc and sy3897_dtm_1m.asc (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

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