Monument record MDO42939 - Post medieval chalk pit, Farm Field Bottom, Sydling St Nicholas

A large sub-circular pit is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs on Farm Field Bottom, Sydling St Nicholas. The feature is recorded as Hill Pit on the OS 1st Edition map and is probably a post medieval chalk pit. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

A large sub-circular pit is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs on Farm Field Bottom, Sydling St Nicholas (1). The feature is recorded as Hill Pit on the OS 1st Edition map (2) and is probably a post medieval chalk pit. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

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

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1794 RP 3376-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16894.

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

<3> Google Earth, 16-09-2020, Google Earth imagery 2020 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16840.

Record last edited

Nov 25 2020 1:12PM