Monument record MDO46643 - Post medieval gravel pit, Newton Peveril Farm, Sturminster Marshall

A post medieval gravel pit to the west of Newton Peveril Farm, Sturminster Marshall, is visible as an earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature is recorded as a gravel pit on the OS 1st Edition map. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A post medieval gravel pit to the west of Newton Peveril Farm, Sturminster Marshall, is visible as an earthwork on current Environment Agency lidar imagery (2021). The feature is recorded as a gravel pit on the OS 1st Edition map published around 1888. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A trackway leading east from the gravel pit towards Newton peveril Farm is also recorded on the OS 1st Edition map and is still visible on 2021 APGB imagery (2021).

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 1, Dorset XXXIV.5 Surveyed: 1885, Published: ca. 1888 (Map). SDO10239.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 2, Dorset XXXIV.5 Revised: 1900, Published: 1901 (Map). SDO11594.

'Gravel Pit'

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

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

Pan Government Agreement, XX-XX-2021, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (Aerial Photograph). SDO19455.

Record last edited

Jul 31 2026 1:31PM