Monument record MDO46612 - Post medieval chalk pit, Higher Combe Farm, Sturminster Marshall

A post medieval extractive pit to the northwest of Higher Combe Farm, Sturminster Marshall, is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature is marked but not named on the OS 1st Edition map but is considered likely to be an old chalk pit. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A post medieval extractive pit to the northwest of Higher Combe Farm, Sturminster Marshall, is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery [1, 2]. The feature is marked but not named on the OS 1st Edition map but is considered likely to be an old chalk pit [3]. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 V 5137 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19960.

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

Record last edited

Jul 11 2023 3:51PM