Monument record MDO46644 - Post medieval quarries, Newton Peveril Farm, Sturminster Marshall

Two post medieval quarries to the northwest of Newton Peveril Farm, Sturminster Marshall, are visible as earthworks on current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features are shown but not named on the OS 1st Edition map and are recorded as 'old quarries' on a 1955 OS map. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Two post medieval quarries to the northwest of Newton Peveril Farm, Sturminster Marshall, are visible as earthworks on current Environment Agency lidar imagery [1]. The features are shown but not named on the 1:25-inch scale Ordnance Survey maps published around 1888 and in 1901 and are recorded as 'old quarries' on a 1955 OS map. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

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.

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.

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

Record last edited

Jul 30 2026 4:54PM