Monument record MDO31771 - Post medieval extractive pit, Whiteway Hill, Tyneham, Purbeck

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Summary

A small extractive pit is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 on Whiteway Hill. It is considered likely to be a post medieval chalk pit, the underlying geology being chalk.

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Full Description

A small extractive pit is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 on Whiteway Hill. It is considered likely to be a post medieval chalk pit, the underlying geology being chalk (1). The feature is not visible on recent Google Earth imagery; it was digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.


<1> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 4238-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13711.

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  • <1> Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 04-NOV-1946. RAF/CPE/UK/1824 4238-9.

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Location

Grid reference Centred SY 87481 81004 (10m by 9m) Centred on
Map sheet SY88SE
Civil Parish Steeple with Tyneham; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Record last edited

Sep 12 2014 2:12PM

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