Monument record MDO44533 - Undated pits, Pimperne

A concentration of sub-circular pits or hollows are visible as cropmarks to the west of Pimperne on an undated aerial photograph. The features appear in some cases cut into the sides of a group of Bronze Age barrows at this location, with a further two pits cut against part of a trackway of unknown date (MDO44488) but possibly of prehistoric origin. The pits are also of uncertain date, but the association of features suggest possible post medieval chalk pits. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A concentration of sub-circular pits or hollows are visible as cropmarks to the west of Pimperne on an undated aerial photograph [1]. The features appear in some cases cut into the sides of a group of Bronze Age barrows at this location, with a further two pits cut against part of a trackway of unknown date (MDO44488) but possibly of prehistoric origin. The pits are also of uncertain date, but the association of features suggest possible post medieval chalk pits. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Cornwall Council, 2022, 2022 AIM Middle Stour HE8422 (Machine readable data file). SDO21760.

<1> xx-xxx-xxxx, ACA 7093/931 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18622.

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Aug 12 2026 10:28AM