Monument record MDO39019 - Post medieval sand pit, Burstock Down, Stoke Abbott

A large extractive pit on Burstock Down, Stoke Abbott, is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s. It is shown as 'old sand pit' on the OS 1st Edition map, accessed via Lewesdon Hill Lane to the north. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A large extractive pit measuring around 320m by 180m on Burstock Down, Burstock, is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s (1) and (2). It is shown as 'old sand pit' on the OS 1st Edition map (3). A trackway also shown on the OS 1st Edition map accesses the quarry via Lewesdon Hill Lane to the north, skirting the southwest corner of Lewesdon Hillfort. The site is still visible on the latest Google Earth imagery (4), although now under greater tree cover. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FS 2407-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14852.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1083-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14777.

<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 1:33PM