Monument record MDO50372 - Post medieval chalk or flint pits, South Down, Ibberton

A loose spread of post medieval extractive pits are visible as shallow ditched earthworks on South Down, Ibberton, on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features are on or border clay with flints geology and several flint pits and chalk pits in the vicinity are documented on the OS Epoch 1 map and recorded separately. This grouping is not shown on any mapping but are also likely to be either flint or chalk pits of post medieval origin and were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

A loose spread of post medieval extractive pits are visible as shallow ditched earthworks on South Down, Ibberton, on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1947; RAF 1947; EA 2018). The features are on or border clay with flints geology and several flint pits and chalk pits in the vicinity are documented on the OS Epoch 1 map and recorded separately. This grouping is not shown on any mapping but are also likely to be either flint or chalk pits of post medieval origin and were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FP 1176 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21686.

Royal Air Force, 17-Jan-1947, RAF/CPE/UK 1934 RS 4171 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21681.

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

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Feb 10 2026 1:37PM