Monument record MDO42998 - Post medieval chalk pits, Haydon Lane, Melbury Bubb

A group of sub-circular ditched and scarped features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs on the north side of Haydon Lane, Melbury Bubb. One of the larger features is recorded as an old chalk pit on the OS 1st Edition map and the additional features are also considered likely to be chalk pits, probably of post medieval date. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

A group ofsub-circular ditched and scarped features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs on the north side of Haydon Lane, Melbury Bubb (1, 2). One of the larger features is recorded as an old chalk pit on the OS 1st Edition map (3) and the additional features are also considered likely to be chalk pits, probably of post medieval date. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Only one of the features is still visible on current Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1057-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17003.

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-48, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RP 3367-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17002.

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

Record last edited

Feb 2 2021 9:27AM