Monument record MDO46684 - Post medieval extractive pits, Almer, Sturminster Marshall

Two areas of probable post medieval extraction, alongside a smaller sub-circular hollow feature that might also be a post medieval extractive pit, are visible as earthworks to the south of St Mary's Church, Almer, Sturminster Marshall, on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features are most likely chalk or gravel pits. The largest of the features is shown but not named on the OS 1st Edition map and is recorded as a pond on an OS map dated 1955. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Two areas of probable post medieval extraction, alongside a smaller sub-circular hollow feature that might also be a post medieval extractive pit, are visible as earthworks to the south of St Mary's Church, Almer, Sturminster Marshall, on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery [1, 2]. The features are most likely chalk or gravel pits. The largest of the features is shown but not named on the OS 1st Edition map and is recorded as a pond on an OS map dated 1955 [3, 4]. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 V 5132 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19936.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<4> Ordnance Survey, xx-xxx-1955, Ordnance Survey Epocha5_2500 (Map). SDO18568.

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Aug 22 2024 4:16PM