Monument record MDO31978 - Post medieval extractive pits, Claypits Farm, Winfrith Newburgh

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Summary

Two rounded hollows are visible as a low earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 to the southeast of Claypits Farm. They are considered likely to be the sites of a post medieval extractive pits.

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Two rounded hollows are visible as a low earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1946 to the southeast of Claypits Farm. They are considered likely to be the sites of a post medieval extractive pits. The site has since been plough-levelled and they are no longer visible on recent Google Earth imagery. They were digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

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  • <1> Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 04-NOV-1946. RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4429-30.

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Location

Grid reference Centred SY 81652 84641 (55m by 104m) (3 map features)
Map sheet SY88SW
Civil Parish Winfrith Newburgh; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Record last edited

Oct 17 2014 1:58PM

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