Monument record MDO40880 - Post medieval extractive pit, Stanbridge, Hinton

Two small post medieval extractive pits to the northeast of Stanbridge are visible on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Two small post medieval extractive pits to the northeast of Stanbridge are visible on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery (1 and 2).

The features comprise two shallow sub-circular depressions 16m by 9.8m and 9m by 6m. The two features are situated immediately adjacent to each other on the southeast side of an irregular line of trees within a sub-rectangular historic enclosure recorded on the OS 1st Edition map (3).

The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 RS 4188-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15966.

<2> Environment Agency, xxx-xxx-2015, Environment Agency Lidar DSM 1M (Aerial Photograph). SDO15964.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

Record last edited

May 9 2018 2:19PM