Monument record MDO38764 - Post medieval quarrying, Little Coombe Farm, Whitchurch Canonicorum

A linear scarp is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1948 to the north west of Coney's Castle hillfort. The feature is 220m long and marked as Old Gravel Pit on the OS 1st edition map. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A linear scarp is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1948 to the north west of Coney's Castle hillfort (1). The feature is 220m long and marked as Old Gravel Pit on the OS 1st edition map. This is an area prone to natural slumping due to the underlying mudstone geology, it is therefore uncertain as to what extent this feature is natural or man-made. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP, it is still visible under scrub vegetation on recent digital aerial photographs (2).

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4207-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14817.

<2> Google Earth, 2008, Digital Vertical Photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO14816.

Record last edited

Jul 26 2019 11:48AM