Monument record MDO41563 - Post medieval extractive pits, Corfe Mullen

An area of post medieval extraction on open ground to the southwest of Corfe Mullen is visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The features are now under the later Corfe Mullen Clay Pit. They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

An area of post medieval extractive extraction on open ground to the southwest of Corfe Mullen are visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1-3).

The features comprise shallow pits and scarps and low banks extending over an area approximately 315m long by 140m wide. The extraction appears relatively shallow surface extraction, probably associated with post medieval gravel extraction; part of the central area is recorded on the OS 1st Edition map as a 'gravel pit' (4). The features are situated on open rough ground (1-4).

The site is under the Corfe Mullen Clay Pit on current Google Earth imagery and the features are no longer visible. They were 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, 01-SEP-47, RAF/CPE/UK/2280 V 5064-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16190.

<3> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-48, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4083-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16186.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

Record last edited

Aug 31 2018 2:39PM