Monument record MDO43063 - Post medieval chalk pit, Long Ash Lane, Frome St Quintin

A sub-circular scarped feature is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs on the north side of Long Ash Lane, Frome St Quintin. The feature is recorded as an old chalk pit on the OS 1st Edition map. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

A sub-circular scarped feature is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs on the north side of Long Ash Lane, Frome St Quintin (1, 2). The feature is recorded as an old chalk pit on the OS 1st Edition map (3). It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The feature is still visible as a cropmark on current Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 15-APR-45, RAF/106G/LA/218 FS 2017 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17034.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1057-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17003.

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

Record last edited

Feb 16 2021 12:54PM