Monument record MDO40198 - Post medieval sand pit, Higher Manor Farm House, Hinton Martell

A Sand Pit is marked on the OS 1st edition map to the west of Higher Manor Farm House, Hinton Martell. The site is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 and is still visible on lidar imagery. The features marked by the OS are only a small part of a larger area of shallow extraction visible on the lidar, it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

A Sand Pit is marked on the OS 1st edition map to the west of Higher Manor Farm House, Hinton Martell (1). The site is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946(2-3) and is still visible on lidar imagery (4). The features marked by the OS are only a small part of a larger area of shallow extraction visible on the lidar, it was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<2> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 4080-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15748.

<3> Royal Air Force, 10-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1964 RS 3046-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15749.

<4> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

Record last edited

Mar 1 2018 8:04PM