Monument record MDO46979 - Possible post medieval extractive pits, Old Park Farm, Lytchett Matravers

Possible post medieval extractive features at Simmon's Bottom, to the west of Old Park Farm, Lytchett Matravers, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features comprise three elongated irregular hollows, which might be areas of gravel extraction. Two of the features are shown on the OS 1st Edition map, the northernmost of these recorded as a pond on an OS map dated 1955. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project

Possible post medieval extractive features at Simmon's Bottom, to the west of Old Park Farm, Lytchett Matravers, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and on current Environment Agency lidar imagery [1, 2]. The features comprise three elongated irregular hollows, which might be areas of gravel extraction. Two of the features are shown on the OS 1st Edition map, the northernmost of these 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> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 RS 4136 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20050.

<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.

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Sep 19 2023 3:15PM