Monument record MDO50381 - Post medieval chalk or flint pits, The Stubbs, Winterborne Houghton

A loose spread of post medieval extractive pits are visible as shallow ditched earthworks within The Stubbs, Winterborne Houghton, 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 are recorded in the vicinity. One of the larger pits is shown but not named on the Epoch a5 map. The features are also considered 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 within The Stubbs, Winterborne Houghton, on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1945; EA 2018). The features are on or border clay with flints geology and several flint pits and chalk pits are recorded in the vicinity. One of the larger pits is shown but not named on the Epoch a5 map (OS 1962). The features are also considered 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, 27-MAR-1945, RAF/106G/LA200 FS 2067 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21688.

Ordnance Survey, xx-xxx-1962, OS Epoch a5 2500 map (Map). SDO21525.

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

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Feb 10 2026 1:52PM