Monument record MDO46974 - Possible post medieval chalk pit, Peaton's Farm, Lytchett Matravers

A small sub-circular hollow to the northeast of Peaton's Farm, Lytchett Matravers, is visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs. The feature is situated within an area of earthworks associated with a deserted medieval village but might be a later feature, possibly a post medieval extractive pit, perhaps a chalk pit. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A small sub-circular hollow to the northeast of Peaton's Farm, Lytchett Matravers, is visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs [1]. The feature comprises a 6m in diameter hollow situated within an area of earthworks associated with a deserted medieval village (MDO7774), around 25m west of a surviving medieval house platform. The feature
might, however, be a later feature, possibly a post medieval extractive pit, a chalk pit perhaps. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project. The feature is no longer visible on available Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 05-MAR-1945, RAF/106G/LA/163 3075 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20053.

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