Monument record MDO42972 - Post medieval chalk pits, Plain Bottom, Maiden Newton

Multiple sub-circular pits are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs across the area of Plain Bottom, Maiden Newton. The features are considered likely to be post medieval chalk pits. Two of the larger features are recorded as old chalk pits on the OS 1st Edition map. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Multiple sub-circular pits are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs across the area of Plain Bottom, Maiden Newton (1-4). The features are considered likely to be post medieval chalk pits. Two of the larger features are recorded as old chalk pits on the OS 1st Edition map (5). The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The features are still visible on current Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 21-OCT-71, RAF/39/3812 V 0210-11 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16874.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-NOV-71, RAF/39/3829 V 0037-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16899.

<3> Royal Air Force, 11-NOV-71, RAF/39/3829 V 0038-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16910.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 13-APR-84, OS84024/072 V (Aerial Photograph). SDO16876.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

Record last edited

Dec 1 2020 9:02AM