Monument record MDO39871 - Possible post medieval extractive pits, possible marl pits, Gussage All Saints

A cluster of five possible post medieval extractive pits are visible as cropmarks to the northeast of Gussage All Saints on a 1995 and a 2005 aerial photograph. The features may be chalk or marl pits of medieval or post medieval origin. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A cluster of five possible post medieval extractive pits around 5m to 6m in diameter are visible as cropmarks to the northeast of Gussage All Saints on a 1995 aerial photograph and a 2005 aerial photograph (1 and 2). The features may be chalk or marl pits of medieval or post medieval origin.

The pits are located at the northern end of a modern cropping field, the surviving boundaries of which are of probable medieval origin.

The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> National Monuments Record, 13-JUL-95, NMR 15314/06 (SU0110/008) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15644.

<2> Dorset County Council, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12570.

Record last edited

Feb 7 2018 1:26PM