Monument record MDO43055 - Post medieval gravel pits, Row Hill, Sydling St Nicholas

Several sub-circular ditched and scarped features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs on Row Hill, Sydling St Nicholas. Two of the features are recorded as old gravel pits on the OS 1st Edition map. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Several sub-circular ditched and scarped features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs on Row Hill, Sydling St Nicholas (1, 2). Two of the features are recorded as old gravel pits on the OS 1st Edition map (3). The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Only one of the features is still visible on current Google Earth imagery, with some under trees and one visible as a cropmark.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RS 4378-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17025.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1054-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17013.

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

Record last edited

Mar 31 2021 9:13AM