Monument record MDO43103 - Possible post medieval chalk pit, Chalkcombe Plantation, Sydling St Nicholas

A sub-circular ditched feature is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery at Chalkcombe Plantation, Sydling St Nicholas. The feature may be an extractive pit, possibly a chalk pit (given the name of the plantation), of probable post medieval date. An irregular earthwork and linking trackway is recorded but not named on the OS 1st Edition map. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

A sub-circular ditched feature is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and current Lidar imagery at Chalkcombe Plantation, Sydling St Nicholas (1, 2). The feature may be an extractive pit, possibly a chalk pit (given the name of the plantation), of probable post medieval date. An irregular earthwork and linking trackway is recorded but not named on the OS 1st Edition map (3); the trackway is visible on the 1947 aerial photograph (1). The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

The feature is under trees on Google Earth imagery.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-47, RAF/CPE/UK/1794 RP 3380-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16904.

<2> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

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

Record last edited

Feb 24 2021 11:26AM