Monument record MDO50357 - Probable post medieval chalk pit, Ibberton

A post medieval extractive pit is visible as a shallow ditched earthwork on the south side of Ibberton on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature is just off the clay with flints geology and adjacent to a larger pit recorded as an old chalk pit on the OS Epoch 1 25 inch map and is probably a chalk pit as well. It was digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

A post medieval extractive pit is visible as a shallow ditched earthwork on the south side of Ibberton on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1947; EA 2018). The feature is just off the clay with flints geology and adjacent to a larger pit recorded as an old chalk pit on the OS Epoch 1 25 inch map (OS c1880) and is probably a chalk pit as well. 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/1974 FP 1176 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21686.

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

Record last edited

Feb 9 2026 4:08PM