Monument record MDO7012 - Culpepper's Dish, Affpuddle

The pits on Southover Heath and Affpuddle Heath are referred to in Gents' Magazine, 1768, as Culpepper's or Hurepepper's Dish. <2>

Cull-pepper's Dish is a funnel-like depression on top of a ridge in a gravel area. It has an approximate upper diameter of 80.0 metres,11.0 metres at the bottom, and 15.0 metres deep. There are no traces of spoil heaps in the vicnity. See ground photograph. <3>

'Cull-pepper's Dish', a natural shallow hole. <4>

It is the largest of a number of round shallow depressions in the heath caused by faults in the tertiary strata. If the hollows were notable for herbs, the allusions are perhaps to Nicholas Culpeper, author of 'English Physician or the Herbal 1653'. <5>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 8141 9255) Cull-pepper's Dish (NAT)

<2> Crawford, O G S, Annotated record map 6 inch (Map). SWX7265.

<2.1> 1768, Gentleman's Magazine, 109-13 (Serial). SDO19686.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 24-SEP-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 1 (Monograph). SDO150.

<5> Mills, A D, 1977, The place-names of Dorset, Part 1: the Isle of Purbeck, the hundreds of Rowbarrow, Hasler, Winfrith, Culliford Tree, Bere Regis, Barrow, Puddletown St George, 290 (Monograph). SWX972.

<6> Historic England, Historic England Archive, F52/72/8 (Index). SDO14738.

LARGEST OF A SERIES OF NATURAL SWALLOW HOLES IN THIS AREA VIEW FROM SOUTH-EAST. ALSO KNOWN AS 'HUNEPEPPER'S DISH'

<7> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS52/F72/8 (Index). SDO14738.

SECTION OF CULL-PEPPER'S DISH FROM SOUTH EAST.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456198 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 24 2023 2:22PM