Monument record MDO50402 - Possible post medieval chalk extraction, Bulbarrow, Woolland

Areas of possible post medieval extraction are visible as shallow ditched earthworks and disturbed ground on Bulbarrow Hill, Woolland, on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features are off the adjacent clay with flints geology and might be chalk pits and areas of shallow chalk extraction of post medieval origin. They were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Areas of possible post medieval extraction are visible as shallow ditched earthworks and disturbed ground on Bulbarrow Hill, Woolland, on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1945; EA 2018). The features are off the adjacent clay with flints geology and might be chalk pits and areas of shallow chalk extraction 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 1084 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21692.

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

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Feb 10 2026 4:37PM