Monument record MDO40162 - Post medieval extractive pit, Rye Hill, Wimborne St Giles

A post medieval extractive pit at Rye Hill is visible as earthworks on 2005 aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery. It is shown as part gravel pit, part old gravel pit, on the OS 1st Edition map. The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A post medieval extractive pit at Rye Hill is visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery (1 and 2). It is also still visible on a 2005 aerial photograph (3).

The extractive pit measures approximately 220m long by 120m wide. It is shown as gravel pit and old gravel pit on the 1st Edition, indicating that the southern extent had gone out of use by the late 19th century (4).

The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 20-MAR-45, RAF/106G/LA/187 RP 3098-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15757.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-NOV-1971, RAF RAF/39/3829 0072-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14552.

<3> Dorset County Council, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12570.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

Record last edited

Mar 6 2018 2:03PM