Monument record MDO43107 - Post medieval sand pit, Up Sydling, Sydling St Nicholas

A sub-circular ditched feature is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs at Up Sydling, Sydling St Nicholas. The feature is recorded as a sand pit on the OS 1st Edition map. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

A sub-circular ditched feature is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs at Up Sydling, Sydling St Nicholas (1). The feature comprises a 40m by 31.5m irregular depression in the corner of a field on the south side of Up Sydling. It is recorded as a sand pit on the OS 1st Edition map (2). The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The feature is still visible as a cropmark on Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FS 2380-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17070.

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

Record last edited

Feb 24 2021 2:05PM