Monument record MDO50391 - Post medieval chalk or flint pit, Woolland Hill, Woolland

A post medieval extractive pit is visible as a ditched earthwork on the north side of Woolland Hill, Woolland, on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature borders clay with flints geology and several flint pits and chalk pits are recorded in the close vicinity. The feature is also considered likely to be either a flint or chalk pit of post medieval origin and was digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

A post medieval extractive pit is visible as a ditched earthwork on the north side of Woolland Hill, Woolland, on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1945; EA 2018). The feature borders clay with flints geology and several flint pits and chalk pits are recorded in the close vicinity. The feature is also considered likely to be either a flint or chalk pit of post medieval origin and was digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Royal Air Force, 27-MAR-1945, RAF/106G/LA200 FS 2068 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21689.

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

Record last edited

Feb 10 2026 2:58PM