Monument record MDO41556 - Post medieval extractive pit, Corfe Mullen

A post medieval extractive pit at Corfe Mullen is visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The feature is situated around 50m southwest of Naked Cross Pit, recorded on the OS 1st Edition map (but under housing by the 1940s) and may be an area of extraction associated with this. The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A post medieval extractive pit at Corfe Mullen is visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1-2).

The feature comprises several irregular scarps covering an area 115m long by 38m wide. It is situated around 50m southwest of Naked Cross Pit, recorded on the OS 1st Edition map (but under housing by the 1940s) and may be an area of extraction associated with this (3).

The site is under an area of trees within a modern housing estate on current Google Earth imagery and the feature is no longer visible. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4249-50 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16185.

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-48, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4083-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16186.

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

Record last edited

Aug 31 2018 1:29PM