Monument record MDO38865 - Possible post medieval extractive pit, Higher Park Farm, Broadwindsor

A possible post medieval extractive pit to the west of Higher Park Farm, Broadwindsor, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s and on the latest Lidar imagery. The site would form one of a string of extractive pits shown as old quarries and chalk pits on the OS 1st Edition map, although this site is not shown. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A possible post medieval extractive pit to the west of Higher Park Farm, Broadwindsor, is visible as an earthwork around 65m long on aerial photographs of the 1940s (1) and on the latest Lidar imagery (2). The site would form one of a string of extractive pits in the vicinity shown as old quarries and chalk pits on the OS 1st Edition map (3), although this site is not shown. The site is showing as partially wooded on an aerial photograph taken in 1947 (1) and wholly wooded on the latest Google Earth imagery (4). The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RS 4404-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14823.

<2> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, ST4403dtm.1m.acs (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<4> Google Earth, 2006, Google Earth vertical photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO14562.

Record last edited

Jul 26 2019 12:30PM