Monument record MWX4114 - Post medieval gravel pits, Slepe Heath, Arne

An old gravel pit shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1885, also shown on the map of 1900, located on the northern edge of Slepe Heath, Arne. A group of pits are visible here as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946. They are considered likely to be the remains of the post medieval gravel pits described above.

Old gravel pits are shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1885 [1] and of 1900 [2].

A group of pits are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the northern edge of Slepe Heath, Arne taken in 1946 (3). They are considered likely to be the remains of the post medieval gravel pits described above. These features were digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project. They are not clearly visible on the most recent Google Earth imagery, this area now overgrown with scrub.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1900, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch two (Map). SDO11594.

<3> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 6400-02 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13501.

Record last edited

Aug 19 2015 1:07PM