Monument record MDO50399 - Possible post medieval flint or chalk pits, Balmers Coombe Bottom, Stoke Wake

A loose spread of post medieval extractive pits alongside an area of disturbed ground are visible as shallow ditched earthworks to the east of Balmers Coombe Bottom and extending towards Bulbarrow Down, Stoke Wake, on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features are on or border clay with flints geology and might be flint or chalk pits of post medieval origin. They were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

A loose spread of post medieval extractive pits alongside an area of disturbed ground are visible as shallow ditched earthworks to the east of Balmers Coombe Bottom and extending towards Bulbarrow Down, Stoke Wake, on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1945; EA 2018). The features are on or border clay with flints geology and might be flint or chalk pits of post medieval origin. They were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Royal Air Force, 27-MAR-1945, RAF/106G/LA200 FP 1067 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21690.

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

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Feb 10 2026 4:13PM