Monument record MDO45577 - Post medieval extractive pit, Lytchett Matravers

A post medieval extractive pit to the north of Boker's Cottage, Lytchett Matravers, is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs. The feature is located within a southwest to northeast running seam of sand, clay and gravels. Some additional pits within the vicinity are documented on the OS 1st Edition map and are variously clay, sand, gravel or chalk pits, reflecting the variable geology of the area. A similar but larger feature on the north side of the railway line (MDO45572) is documented as a sand pit on the OS 1st Edition map. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A post medieval extractive pit to the north of Boker's Cottage, Lytchett Matravers, is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs [1]. The feature is located within a southwest to northeast running seam of sand, clay and gravels. Some additional pits within the vicinity are documented on the OS 1st Edition map and are variously clay, sand, gravel or chalk pits, reflecting the variable geology of the area. A similar but larger feature on the north side of the railway line (MDO45572) is documented as a sand pit on the OS 1st Edition map. The feature is shown but not named on the OS 2nd and 3rd Edition maps [2, 3]. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project. The feature appears to still survive below trees on 2022 Google Earth imagery [4].

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 FS 2140 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19436.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1900, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch two (Map). SDO11594.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1923-33, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch three (Map). SDO11595.

<4> Google Earth, 01/01/2022, Google Earth 2022 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18611.

Record last edited

Feb 16 2023 2:47PM