Monument record MDO42975 - Post medieval chalk pits, Orden Hill, Maiden Newton

Multiple sub-circular pits are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs across the area of Orden Hill, Maiden Newton. The features are considered likely to be post medieval chalk pits. One of the features is recorded as an old chalk pit 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 and cropmarks on aerial photographs across the area of Orden Hill, Maiden Newton (1, 2). The features are considered likely to be post medieval chalk pits. One of the features is recorded as an old chalk pit on the OS 1st Edition map (3). The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The majority of features are still visible on current Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-48, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4276-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16872.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-NOV-71, RAF/39/3829/ V 0040-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16915.

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

Record last edited

Dec 1 2020 10:21AM