Monument record MDO45620 - Post medieval chalk pit, Corfe Mullen

A post medieval extractive pit within Chalkpit Copse, Corfe Mullen, is visible as an earthwork on a 1945 aerial photograph and on Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature is not documented any any historic mapping but is assumed to be a post medieval chalk pit based on the name of the copse. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A post medieval extractive pit within Chalkpit Copse, Corfe Mullen, is visible as an earthwork on a 1945 aerial photograph and on Environment Agency lidar imagery [1, 2]. It it also visible on an aerial photograph dated 1959 [3]. The feature is not documented any any historic mapping but is assumed to be a post medieval chalk pit based on the name of the copse. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 08-MAR-1945, RAF/106G/LA/163 RP 3068 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19466.

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

<3> Royal Air Force, 24-JAN-1959, RAF/58/2687 F21 102 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19465.

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Feb 17 2023 12:11PM