Monument record MDO43096 - Post medieval chalk pits, Crown Point, Sydling St Nicholas

A series of sub-circular ditched features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs on Crown Point, Sydling St Nicholas. One of the features is recorded as a chalk pit and one an old chalk pit on the OS 1st Edition map. The remaining features may also be chalk pits, probably of post medieval date. The features 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 Crown Point, Sydling St Nicholas (1, 2). One of the features is recorded as a chalk pit and one an old chalk pit on the OS 1st Edition map (3). The remaining features may also be chalk pits, probably of post medieval date. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The features are still variously visible as earthworks and cropmarks on Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 15-APR-45, RAF/106G/LA/218 FP 1037 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17067.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FS 2379-80 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17066.

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

Record last edited

Feb 23 2021 1:26PM