Monument record MDO39604 - Post medieval extractive pit, Fillybrook Bottom, Hurn, Christchurch

A post medieval extractive pit at Fillybrook Bottom is visible on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

A post medieval extractive pit at Fillybrook Bottom is visible on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery (1 and 2).

The extractive pit is broadly oval in form and roughly 43m by 38m in size. It shows on current Lidar imagery (2) and its eastern edge is visible on a 1946 aerial photograph (1), the main extent being below trees at this time.

The site remains under dense tree cover on current Google Earth imagery (3). The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4172-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15501.

<2> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 50cm (Aerial Photograph). SDO15306.

<3> Google Earth, 2017, Google Earth 2017 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15388.

Record last edited

Oct 3 2017 2:52PM