Monument record MDO38971 - Post medieval extractive pit, Broadwindsor House, Broadwindsor

A small post medieval extractive pit to the northeast of Broadwindsor House, Broadwindsor, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s and on the latest Lidar imagery. The quarry may be associated with a post medieval lime kiln (MDO546) and a larger area of extraction (MDO38875) on the northside of Common Water Lane. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A small post medieval extractive pit to the northeast of Broadwindsor House, Broadwindsor, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s (1) and on the latest Lidar imagery (2). The quarry measures around 38m long and may be associated with a post medieval lime kiln (MDO546) and a larger area of extraction (MDO38875) on the northside of Common Water Lane. The site is still faintly visible on the latest Google Earth imagery (3) and was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1075 FP 1082-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14843.

<2> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, ST4402dtm.1m.acs (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

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

Record last edited

Jul 26 2019 1:26PM