Monument record MDO43062 - Post medieval chalk pits, Long Ash Lane, Frome St Quintin

A concentration of sub-circular ditched and scarped features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs on the north side of Long Ash Lane, Frome St Quintin. Several of the features are recorded as old chalk pits on the OS 1st Edition map. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

A concentration of sub-circular ditched and scarped features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs on the north side of Long Ash Lane, Frome St Quintin (1-3). Several of the features are recorded as old chalk pits on the OS 1st Edition map (4). The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The features are still visible as cropmarks on current Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 15-APR-45, RAF/106G/LA/218 FS 2017 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17034.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1057-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17003.

<3> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RS 4382-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17037.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

Record last edited

Feb 16 2021 12:54PM