Monument record MDO39036 - Post medieval extraction, Birdsmoorgate, Broadwindsor

A post medieval extractive pit, 42m across, is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1947 to the north west of Birdsmoorgate. The feature is marked as a sand pit on the OS 1st edition map. It was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A post medieval extractive pit, 42m across, is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1947 to the north west of Birdsmoorgate (1). The feature is marked as a sand pit on the OS 1st edition map (2). It was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP and is still visible as an extant earthwork on recent Google Earth imagery (3).

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RP 3411-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14850.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<3> Google Earth, 2010, Vertical Aerial Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO14600.

Record last edited

Jul 26 2019 1:36PM