Monument record MDO38845 - Post medieval extractive pit, Keepers Cottage Plantation, Whitchurch Canonicorum

A small hollow, 18m across, is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the south east of Keepers Cottage Planation. It is marked on the OS 1st edition map and are considered likely to be an post medieval extractive pit or dewpond. The feature was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A small hollow, 18m across, is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the south east of Keepers Cottage Planation (1). It is marked on the OS 1st edition map (2) and is considered likely to be an post medieval extractive pit or dewpond. The feature has been plough-levelled and visible as cropmarks on Google Earth imagery (3). It was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RS 4209-10 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14798.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<3> Google Earth, 2006, Google Earth vertical photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO14562.

Record last edited

Jul 26 2019 12:24PM