Monument record MDO40343 - Post medieval chalk pit, St Giles's Park, Wimborne St Giles

A post medieval chalk pit on the west side of St Giles's Park is visible on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery. The chalk pit is shown as 'old chalk pit' on the OS 1st Edition map. The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A post medieval chalk pit 58.3m by 52m on the west side of St Giles's Park is visible on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery (1 and 2).

The chalk pit is shown as 'old chalk pit' on the OS 1st Edition map (3). It cuts the east side of an earlier banked field boundary (MDO40342) of possible medieval origin.

The feature is still visible and lined by trees on current Google Earth imagery. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 20-MAR-45, RAF/106G/LA/187 RS 4099-100 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15759.

<2> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

Record last edited

Mar 15 2018 11:07AM