Monument record MDO41309 - Possible post medieval extractive pit, Pompey's Lane, Ferndown Town

Two small ditched features on the north side of Pompey's Lane are visible on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery. The features are considered likely to have once been a single extractive pit of probable post medieval date, later cut by a post medieval to modern trackway. The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

Two small ditched features on the north side of Pompey's Lane are visible on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery (1-2).

The features are sub-oval in form and are situated either side of a post medieval to modern trackway, which may cut through what was originally a single 18.6m by 10.8m feature, most likely a post medieval extractive pit.

The site is under trees on current Google Earth imagery but the features are faintly visible on 2015 Lidar imagery (2). The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 20-MAR-45, RAF/106G/LA/187 RP 3044-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16091.

<2> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

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Jul 24 2018 1:52PM