Monument record MDO43078 - Post medieval chalk pits, Wardon Hill, Sydling St Nicholas

Old chalk pits are recorded on Wardon Hill on the OS 1st Edition map. The features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Old chalk pits are recorded on Wardon Hill on the OS 1st Edition map (1). The features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs where they comprise two irregular ditched and scarped depressions 65m by 46m and 35m by 22m that correspond with those shown on the OS 1st Edition map, as well as an additional 20m by 19m semi-circular scarped depression 35m to the southeast (2). The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.
The features are still visible under trees and vegetation on current Google Earth imagery.

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

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 RS 4380-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17051.

Record last edited

Feb 17 2021 11:46AM