Monument record MDO41799 - Possible post medieval extractive pits, Kingston Lacy, Pamphill

Irregular ditched and banked linear features to the southwest of Kingston Lacy Park are visible on aerial photographs. The features may be be post medieval extractive pits.They were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Irregular ditched and banked linear features to the southwest of Kingston Lacy Park are visible on aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery (1-2).

The features comprise three irregular linear ditches and banks on a SW-NE alignment, extending for approximately 370m. The features appear to extend below a historic field boundary of possible post medieval origin, recorded on the OS 1st Edition map (2). They may be be post medieval extractive pits.

The site is still fields under crop on current Google Earth imagery but the features are no longer evident. They were digitally plotted from aerial photographs by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 FS 2195-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16278.

<2> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 50cm (Aerial Photograph). SDO15306.

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Sep 18 2018 1:31PM