Monument record MDO45294 - Possible post medieval extractive pit, Abbeycroft Down,Tarrant Rushton

A large irregular ditched hollow feature is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs and on current Environment Agency lidar imagery, on Abbeycroft Down, Tarrant Rushton. The feature is of uncertain origin but may be an extractive pit of potentially post medieval date. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A large irregular ditched hollow feature is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs and on current Environment Agency lidar imagery, on Abbeycroft Down, Tarrant Rushton [1-3]. The feature measures approximately 80m by 50m and is situated on the south side of Tarrant Rushton Airfield on a 1946 aerial photograph [1]. It is of uncertain origin but may be an extractive pit of potentially post medieval date, or alternatively a feature associated with the airfield, although it is uncertain what this could be. Nothing is recorded at this location on any historic mapping. 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> National Monuments Record, 15-APR-2002, NMR 21628/01 (ST9505/0007) (Aerial Photograph). SDO19207.

<3> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Jan 18 2023 4:16PM