Monument record MDO49951 - Possible post medieval chalk pit, Okeford Fitzpaine

A post medieval chalk pit is visible as a roughly 36m by 35m ditched earthwork to the northeast of Belchalwell Street, Okeford Fitzpaine, on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature is recorded as an old chalk pit on the OS 1st Epoch 25 inch map. It was digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

A post medieval chalk pit is visible as a roughly 36m by 35m ditched earthwork to the northeast of Belchalwell Street, Okeford Fitzpaine, on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1947; RAF 1947; EA 2018). The feature is recorded as an old chalk pit on the OS 1st Epoch 25 inch map (OS c1880). It was digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 RS 4025 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21601.

Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 RS 4170 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21602.

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

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Dec 29 2025 1:17PM