Monument record MDO43355 - Pit dwelling, Piddletrenthide

(Centred ST 718018) Numerous roughly circular sinkings, called 'pit-dwellings' on some old maps, are chalk-pits. <2>

There are numerous shallow hollows visible as soil marks on OS air photographs <3.1-3.2>, varying between 9.0m and 20.0m, scattered throughout this area of arable farmland. They appear to be old chalk-pits, as stated by the RCHM <2>. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1901 (Map). SWX1197.

Area ST 718018 Pit Dwellings

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 330 (Monograph). SDO136.

<3> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F1 GB 20-OCT-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<3.1> Ordnance Survey, OS 74/058/044 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17539.

<3.2> Ordnance Survey, OS 74/058/045 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17534.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202030 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 28 2022 2:50PM