Monument record MDO43000 - Post medieval chalk pits, Baker's Moor, Batcombe

Irregular sub-circular ditched and scarped features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs to the south of Baker's Moor, Batcombe. The largest of the features is recorded as an old chalk pit on the OS 1st Edition map and the additional features may also be extractive pits, possibly further chalk pits, probably of post medieval date. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Irregular sub-circular ditched and scarped features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs to the south of Baker's Moor, Batcombe (1). The largest of the features is recorded as an old chalk pit on the OS 1st Edition map (2) and the additional features may also be extractive pits, possibly further chalk pits, probably of post medieval date. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The largest of the features is still visible on current Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1056-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17007.

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

Record last edited

Feb 2 2021 10:14AM