Monument record MDO46422 - Post medieval chalk pit, Bere Regis

An Old Chalk Pit is marked on the OS 1st edition map to the north of Muddox Barrow Farm (now Skipple's Farm), Bere Regis. It is visible as a hollow, 40m across, on aerial photographs taken in 1947 and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project. A second smaller hollow is visible as earthworks on lidar imagery.

An Old Chalk Pit is marked on the OS 1st edition map to the north of Muddox Barrow Farm (now Skipple's Farm), Bere Regis <1>. It is visible as a hollow, 40m across, on aerial photographs taken in 1947 <2> and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour Catchment AI&M Project. A second smaller hollow is visible as earthworks on lidar imagery <3>.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RP 3349-51 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19881.

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

Record last edited

Sep 29 2023 6:23PM