Monument record MDO48145 - Post medieval chalk pits and lime kiln, Giant Hill, Cerne Abbas

Irregular linear and sub circular hollow features on the southeast side of Giant Hill, Cerne Abbas, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features are recorded as chalk pits on the OS 1st Edition map, along with a lime kiln, which is still visible as a rectilinear structure on a 1947 aerial photograph. The features are documented independently under records MDO751, MDO24040 and MDO24051. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM project.

Irregular linear and sub circular hollow features on the southeast side of Giant Hill, Cerne Abbas, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features are recorded as chalk pits on the OS 1st Edition map, along with a lime kiln, which is still visible as a rectilinear structure on a 1947 aerial photograph. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle AIM project.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 1, Dorset XXXI.2 Surveyed: 1887, Published: 1888 (Map). SDO10239.

'Chalk Pit' 'Limekiln'

Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FS 2375 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20736.

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

Record last edited

Oct 20 2025 11:28AM