Monument record MDO43086 - Post medieval chalk pits, Seldon Hill, Up Cerne

A series of sub-circular ditched features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs on Seldon Hill, Up Cerne. The features are probably post medieval chalk pits. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

A series of sub-circular ditched features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs on Seldon Hill, Up Cerne (1). Three of the features on the west side of the group are recorded but not named on the OS 1st Edition map. On the eastd side of the group a bisected sub-circular earthwork is also recorded on the OS 1st Edition map where it is shown truncating linear earthworks recorded as the site of a 'British Settlement' (see MDO2812).
The features are probably post medieval chalk pits. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Some of the features are still variously visible as earthworks and cropmarks on Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1050-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17031.

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

Record last edited

Feb 19 2021 9:45AM