Monument record MDO46698 - Post medieval quarry, Almer, Sturminster Marshall

A post medieval quarry to the northwest of Almer, Sturminster Marshall, is visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature is recorded as a quarry on the OS 1st Edition map and is shown but not named on an OS map dated 1955. The extent shown on lidar imagery indicates possible expansion/ additional extraction to the southeast. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A post medieval quarry to the northwest of Almer, Sturminster Marshall, is visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery [1, 2]. The feature is recorded as a quarry on the OS 1st Edition map and is shown but not named on an OS map dated 1955 [3, 4]. The extent shown on lidar imagery indicates possible expansion/ additional extraction to the southeast. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 V 5131 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19962.

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

<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.

Record last edited

Jul 14 2023 8:54AM