Monument record MDO40369 - Old chalk workings, High Lea Farm, Hinton Martell

An extensive series of hollows are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1947 and 1989 to the west of the B3078 south of High Lea Farm, Hinton Martell. They are of uncertain date but coinsidered to be old chalk workings. This is an area interpreted as a 'British Village' on the OS 1st edition map. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

There is no evidence that this was a British Village and it bears no resemblance to proved village sites in the area. The subsoil is chalk and it may well be old diggings for chalk or flint. Rabbits only throw up the former. There is no rank vegetation in the bottom of the hollows which, nevertheless, is older than the road which
crosses the site - it is embanked. <4>

A series of hollows (some of which have now been ploughed over) which have the appearance of being old chalk pits. Surface finds were limited to a small amount of calcined flint. <5>

An extensive series of hollows are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs taken in 1947 and 1989 to the west of the B3078 south of High Lea Farm, Hinton Martell <6-7>). They are of uncertain date but considered to be old chalk workings. This is an area interpreted as a 'British Village' on the OS 1st edition map <1>. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

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

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

[Centred SU 00110533] British Village [OE]

<3> Sumner, Heywood, 1931, Local Papers, 40 (Monograph). SWX3911.

<4> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 05-FEB-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<5> Work, R L B, 1954, Field Investigators Comments RLBW, F2 RLBW 23-MAR-54 (Unpublished document). SWX3791.

<6> National Monuments Record, 11-JUL-1989, NMR 4527/13-14 (NMR SU0005/14-15) (Aerial Photograph). SDO15788.

<7> Royal Air Force, 10-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1964 RP 3048-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15789.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213051 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 29 2023 4:17PM