Monument record MDO42887 - Post medieval chalk pits, Magiston Farm, Godmanstone, Sydling St Nicholas

Sub-circular pits are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery to the east of Magiston Farm, Godmanstone, Sydling St Nicholas. Two of the larger features are recorded as a chalk pit and old chalk pit on the OS 1st Edition map. The features are considered all likely to be post medieval chalk pits and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Sub-circular pits are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs and on current Lidar imagery to the east of Magiston Farm, Godmanstone, Sydling St Nicholas (1-3). Two of the larger features are recorded as a chalk pit and old chalk pit on the OS 1st Edition map (4). The features are considered all likely to be post medieval chalk pits and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Many of the features are still visible as earthworks and cropmarks on current Google Earth imagery.

<1> John Boyden, JAN 69, SY6495/7 (JRB108/17) (Aerial Photograph). SDO16860.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FP 1376-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16870.

<3> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

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

Record last edited

Dec 4 2020 10:45AM