Monument record MDO49684 - Post medieval chalk pit, Shillingstone

A probable post medieval chalk pit is visible as an earthwork on a spur of Shillingstone Hill to the south of Shillingstone on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature is situated a short distance south of a large chalk pit (MDO26064) recorded on the OS Epoch 1 map, linked by a historic trackway. It was digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

A probable post medieval chalk pit is visible as an earthwork on a spur of Shillingstone Hill to the south of Shillingstone on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1947; EA 2018). The feature comprises a 50m by 28m scarped depression which is situated a short distance south of a large chalk pit (MDO26064) recorded on the OS Epoch 1 map (OS c1880), linked by a historic trackway. It was digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 1 (Map). SDO10239.

Royal Air Force, 23-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1944 FP 1327 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21505.

Environment Agency, xx-xxx-2018, Environment Agency National Lidar Programme DTM 1M (Aerial Photograph). SDO21483.

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Nov 28 2025 12:45PM