Monument record MDO43042 - Post medieval chalk pits, Flowers Farm, Hillfield

Curvilinear scarps are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs in a field to the southeast of Flowers Farm, Hillfield. The features are recorded as old chalk pits on the OS 1st Edition map. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Curvilinear scarps are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs in a field to the southeast of Flowers Farm, Hillfield (1, 2). The features are recorded as old chalk pits on the OS 1st Edition map (3). They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The features are under trees and not visible on current Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 15-APR-45, RAF/106G/LA/218 FS 2040 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17026.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1052-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17029.

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

Record last edited

Feb 10 2021 12:50PM