Monument record MDO44413 - 20th century extractive pit, Tarrant Rushton

A large irregular, sub-rectangular depression is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs taken in 1946 to the west of Tarrant Rushton Airfield, Tarrant Rushton, and on Environment Agency lidar imagery. It may be a 20th century extractive pit, possibly associated with the wartime use of Tarrant Rushton airfield, although this is not certain. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project.

A large irregular, sub-rectangular depression is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs taken in 1946 to the west of Tarrant Rushton Airfield, Tarrant Rushton, and on Environment Agency lidar imagery [1, 2]. The feature is approximately 140m long by up to 165m wide and truncates a historic field boundary shown on the OS 1st Edition map [3]. It is shown, but not named, on post-war OS mapping dated 1955 [4]. It appears to be an extractive pit but may be a 20th century feature, possibly associated with the wartime use of Tarrant Rushton airfield, although this is not certain.

The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4071 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18567.

<2> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

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

<4> Ordnance Survey, xx-xxx-1955, Ordnance Survey Epocha5_2500 (Map). SDO18568.

Record last edited

Sep 21 2022 2:02PM