Monument record MDO46727 - Probable post medieval chalk pit and pond, Mapperton, Sturminster Marshall

An elongated irregular hollow to the south of Mapperton, Sturminster Marshall, is visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Environment Agency lidar imagery. Two banked linear boundaries enclose the north side.The feature is shown but not named on the OS 1st Edition map and a smaller extent than is visible on lidar imagery is recorded as a pond on an OS map dated 1955. It is considered likely to be a post medieval chalk pit re-used as a pond. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

An elongated irregular hollow up to 75m long by up to 39m wide, to the south of Mapperton, Sturminster Marshall, is visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Environment Agency lidar imagery [1, 2]. Two banked linear boundaries enclose the north side.The feature is shown but not named on the OS 1st Edition map and a smaller extent than is visible on lidar imagery is recorded as a pond on an OS map dated 1955 [3, 4]. It is considered likely to be a post medieval chalk pit re-used as a pond. The feature was 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 11:19AM