Monument record MDO46728 - Post medieval quarry, Mapperton, Sturminster Marshall

An elongated irregular hollow to the southwest of Mapperton, Sturminster Marshall, is visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature is shown but not named on the OS 2nd Edition map and is recorded as an old quarry on an OS map dated 1955. It is considered likely to be a quarry of potentially early 20th century date. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

An elongated irregular hollow to the southwest of Mapperton, Sturminster Marshall, is visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Environment Agency lidar imagery [1, 2]. The feature is shown but not named on the OS 2nd Edition map and is recorded as an old quarry on an OS map dated 1955 [3, 4]. It is considered likely to be a quarry of potentially early 20th century date. 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, 1900, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch two (Map). SDO11594.

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

Record last edited

Jul 14 2023 12:12PM