Monument record MDO39027 - Probable post medieval extractive pits, Stoke Knapp Farm, Stoke Abbott

Probable post medieval extractive pits to the southwest of Stoke Knapp Farm, Stoke Abbott, are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s and 1970s. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

Probable post medieval extractive pits to the southwest of Stoke Knapp Farm, Stoke Abbott, are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s (1) and 1970s (2). The quarried areas measure around 75m and 38m in length; the smaller of these to the southeast is cut by an historic trackway (MDO39025).The extractive pits are still visible on the latest Google Earth imagery (3). The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1971, RAF/39/3826 V 0134-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14857.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1081-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14844.

<3> Google Earth, 2006, Google Earth vertical photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO14562.

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Jul 26 2019 1:35PM