Monument record MDO45604 - Post medieval brickworks, Cherrett's Clump, Corfe Mullen

A post medieval extractive pit and a rectangular structure, possibly a brick kiln, at Cherrett's Clump, Corfe Mullen, are visible as an earthwork and ruined structure on 1940s aerial photographs. A brickworks is documented on the OS 1st Edition map and an OS map dating to 1955 documents the extractive pit as a disused clay pit. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A post medieval extractive pit and a rectangular structure, possibly a brick kiln, at Cherrett's Clump, Corfe Mullen, are visible as an earthwork and ruined structure on 1940s aerial photographs [1]. A brickworks is documented on the OS 1st Edition map, showing a kiln located slioghtly southwest of the structure visible in 1948 [2]. An OS map dating to 1955 documents the extractive pit as a disused clay pit and the structure visible on the 1948 aerial photograph as a 'ruin' [3]. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project. The features are no longer visible on 2021 APGB imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 01-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4085 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19459.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<3> Ordnance Survey, xx-xxx-1955, Ordnance Survey Epocha5_2500 (Map). SDO18568.

Record last edited

Oct 10 2023 1:49PM