Monument record MDO43073 - Post medieval chalk pits, Frome Park Coppice, Frome St Quintin

Two sub-circular ditched features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs to the west of Frome Park Coppice, Frome St Quintin. The larger of the two features is recorded as an old chalk pit on the OS 1st Edition map. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Two sub-circular ditched features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs to the west of Frome Park Coppice, Frome St Quintin (1). The larger of the two features is recorded as an old chalk pit on the OS 1st Edition map (2). It comprises an irregular depression approximately 17.8m by 19m. A smaller sub-oval depression approximately 16m by 9m is situated just over 80m to the southeast.The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The features are under vegetation/trees but are still visible on current Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1058-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17047.

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

Record last edited

Feb 16 2021 3:30PM