Monument record MDO39028 - Possible post medieval extractive pit, Stoke Knapp Farm, Stoke Abbott

A small area of possible post medieval extraction to the southwest of Stoke Knapp Farm, Stoke Abbott, is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s. The possible quarried area is located on a shallow slope against a field edge and may alternatively be natural in origin. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A small area of possible post medieval extraction around 75m long to the southwest of Stoke Knapp Farm, Stoke Abbott, is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s (1). The possible quarried area is located on a shallow northwest facing slope against a field edge and may alternatively have a natural origin. The site is still visible on the latest Google Earth imagery (2). The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

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

<2> Google Earth, 2006, Google Earth vertical photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO14562.

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Jul 26 2019 1:35PM