Monument record MDO50461 - Post medieval chalk extraction, Lamplands Copse, Stoke Wake

Areas of disturbed ground containing deeper pockets and hollows within Lamplands Copse, Stoke Wake, are visible as earthworks on current Environment Agency lidar imagery. Some of the features are recorded as old chalk pits on the OS Epoch 1 25 inch map, suggesting those from the wider vicinity are also post medieval chalk pits and shallow chalk extraction. They were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

Areas of disturbed ground containing deeper pockets and hollows within Lamplands Copse, Stoke Wake, are visible as earthworks on current Environment Agency lidar imagery (EA 2018). Some of the features are recorded as old chalk pits on the OS Epoch 1 25 inch map, suggesting those from the wider vicinity are also post medieval chalk pits and shallow chalk extraction (OS c1880). They were digitally plotted during the Mid Dorset Downs AIM project.

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

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

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Feb 12 2026 1:50PM