Monument record MDO48112 - Post medieval chalk pit, Tenant's Hill, Alton Pancras

A sub circular hollow feature on Tenant's Hill, to the west of Alton Pancras, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature might be a post medieval chalk pit and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM project.

A sub circular hollow feature on Tenant's Hill, to the west of Alton Pancras, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery [1, 2]. The feature
is located within a small rectilinear enclosure that forms part of a larger later prehistoric settlement and/ or field system (MDO48113) but is possibly a later feature, perhaps a post medieval chalk pit. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM project.

Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Cornwall Council, 2025, 2025 AI&M Cerne and Piddle HE9364 (Machine readable data file). SDO21761.

<1> National Monuments Record, 07-AUG-1995, NMR 15377/35 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20730.

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

Record last edited

May 10 2026 6:39PM