Monument record MDO41452 - Possible post medieval extractive pit, Lower Barford, Pamphill

A shallow sub-oval depression to the northeast of Lower Barford is visible on current Lidar imagery. The feature may be a post medieval extractive pit. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

A shallow sub-oval depression to the northeast of Lower Barford is visible on current Lidar imagery (1).

The feature is 95m long by 46m wide. The OS 1st Edition map shows a series of four linked dotted enclosures at this location; visible as a tree-filled depression in 1946 (2-3). The feature visible on current Lidar imagery is larger than the enclosures extent and is likely to be an earlier feature, possibly a post medieval extractive pit.

The site is still open fields on current Google Earth imagery; the feature is faintly visible as a cropmark/parchmark in some years. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.

<1> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 50cm (Aerial Photograph). SDO15306.

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

<3> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4149-50 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16141.

Record last edited

Aug 23 2018 12:21PM