Monument record MDO47042 - Possible post medieval extractive pit, Lytchett Matravers

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A sub-circular hollow depression in a field at Lytchett Matravers, is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs. The feature might be a post medieval extractive pit and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

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A sub-circular hollow depression in a field at Lytchett Matravers, is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs [1]. The feature might be a post medieval extractive pit and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project. The features is under housing on 2022 Google Earth imagery.


<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 RP 3201 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20059.

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  • <1> Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 17-JAN-1947. RAF/CPE/UK/1934 RP 3201.

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Grid reference SY 9457 9579 (point)
Map sheet SY99NW
Civil Parish Lytchett Matravers; Dorset

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Record last edited

Aug 21 2023 10:50AM

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