Monument record MDO49984 - Post medieval extractive pit or pond, Turnworth

A sub-circular ditched feature is visible as an earthwork within Lines Dean Bottom, Turnworth, on 1940s aerial photographs and as a larger oval ditched earthwork on Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature is shown as a sub-squarish ditched feature on the OS Epoch 1 25 inch map of c 1880 and might be a post medieval extractive pit or pond. It was digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

A sub-circular ditched feature is visible as an earthwork within Lines Dean Bottom, Turnworth, on 1940s aerial photographs and as a larger oval ditched earthwork on Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1947; EA 2018). The feature is shown as a sub-squarish ditched feature on the OS Epoch 1 25 inch map of c 1880 and might be a post medieval extractive pit or pond (OS c1880). 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, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FS 2025 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21621.

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

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Dec 30 2025 11:52AM