Monument record MDO41117 - Post medieval extractive pit, Broadstone Golf Course, Poole

An irregular ditched feature on the southwest side of Broadstone Golf Course is visible on aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery. The feature is presumed to be a post medieval extractive pit. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

An irregular ditched feature on the southwest side of Broadstone Golf Course is visible on aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery (1 and 2).

The feature comprises a deep irregular depression up to around 30.7m long by 25m wide. It is one of many small individual extractive pits and larger areas of shallow extraction dispersed across this part of the Dorset heathland and is probably post medieval to perhaps early 20th century in origin.

The site is still part of Broadstone Golf Course on current Google Earth imagery but under low scrubby vegetation. The feature is still visible as a shallow scarp under vegetation.

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

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3199-2000 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16019.

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

Record last edited

Jan 6 2020 11:31AM