Monument record MDO43117 - Post medieval chalk pits, Ayles's Hill, Sydling St Nicholas

Groups of sub-circular ditched features are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on Ayles's Hill, Sydling St Nicholas. The features are recorded as old chalk pits on the OS 1st Edition map and are probably post medieval in date. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Four sub-circular ditched features are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on Ayles's Hill, Sydling St Nicholas (1, 2). The features are recorded as old chalk pits on the OS 1st Edition map and are probably post medieval in date (3). They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The features are still visible on Google Earth imagery.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 13-MAR-95, OS 95033 V 073 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17058.

<2> National Monuments Record, 23-OCT-71, JRB 386/2335 (ST6100/4) (Aerial Photograph). SDO17072.

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

Record last edited

Feb 25 2021 2:45PM