Monument record MDO39152 - Brickworks, Lytchett Matravers

Clay pit with brickworks and two kilns marked on the 1st epoch Ordnance Survey map. Features comprising an irregular area of disturbed ground containing two linear banked earthworks and the remains of a small rectilinear structure are visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The structure corresponds with the location of one of the documented kilns, one of the linear banks broadly corresponds with the footprint of one of a pair of long rectilinear buildings recorded on the OS 1st Edition map and altered/demolished by the time of the OS 2nd Edition map. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

Clay pit with brickworks and two kilns marked on the 1st epoch Ordnance Survey map [1]. Features comprising an irregular area of disturbed ground containing two linear banked earthworks and the remains of a small rectilinear structure are visible on 1940s aerial photographs [2]. The structure corresponds with the location of one of the documented kilns, one of the linear banks broadly corresponds with the footprint of one of a pair of long rectilinear buildings recorded on the OS 1st Edition map and altered/demolished by the time of the OS 2nd Edition map [3]. The 2nd Edition map also shows an extension of the clay pit/extractive area to the north, still visible on an aerial photograph dated 1947 [2]. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project. The features are now under modern housing development.

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

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 RS 4140 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20060.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1900, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch two (Map). SDO11594.

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Oct 3 2023 9:32AM