Monument record MDO42882 - Post medieval chalk pit, Grimstone Down, Stratton

An irregular sub-circular pit is visible as an earthwork and cropmark on aerial photographs on the south side of Grimstone Down, Stratton. The feature is recorded as a chalk pit on the OS 1st Edition map. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

An irregular sub-circular pit is visible as an earthwork and cropmark on aerial photographs on the south side of Grimstone Down, Stratton (1). The feature is recorded as a chalk pit on the OS 1st Edition map (2). It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The feature is still visible as a cropmark on current Google Earth imagery (3).

<1> National Monuments Record, 02-FEB-71, SY6495/10 (NMR285/283) (Aerial Photograph). SDO16864.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<3> Google Earth, XX-XXX-2010, Google Earth 2010 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16568.

Record last edited

Nov 18 2020 9:14AM