Monument record MDO50427 - Post medieval chalk pits, Woolland

Two large quarry pits, a small adjacent pit and linear banks are visible as ditched and banked earthworks to the south of the manor house, Woolland, on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery. The earthworks are shown on the OS Epoch 1 25 inch map, the smallest of the ditched features shown as an old chalk pit. The features might all be quarries, pits and earthworks associated with chalk extraction and were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Two large quarry pits, a small adjacent pit and linear banks are visible as ditched and banked earthworks to the south of the manor house, Woolland, on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery (RAF 1945; EA 2018). The earthworks are shown on the OS Epoch 1 25 inch map, the smallest of the ditched features shown as an old chalk pit (OS c1880). The features might all be quarries, pits and earthworks associated with chalk extraction and were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 1 (Map). SDO10239.

Royal Air Force, 27-MAR-1945, RAF/106G/LA 200 FP 1068 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21695.

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

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Feb 11 2026 1:45PM