Monument record MDO42845 - Post medieval chalk pits, Hyde Crook House, Frampton

Groups of sub-circular pits are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery in fields to the southwest of Hyde Crook House, Frampton. The features are considered likely to be post medieval chalk pits - one of the features is recorded as a chalk pit on the OS 1st Edition map. The features were all digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Groups of sub-circular pits are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery in fields to the southwest of Hyde Crook House, Frampton (1, 2). The features are considered likely to be post medieval chalk pits - one of the features is recorded as a chalk pit on the OS 1st Edition map (3). The features were all digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-48, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4271-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16842.

<2> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

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

Record last edited

Nov 12 2020 10:02AM