A shallow sub-oval depression in a field to the east of Pig Oak is visible on 1940s aerial photographs. The feature may be an extractive pit of probable post medieval date. It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.
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A shallow sub-oval depression in a field to the east of Pig Oak is visible on 1940s aerial photographs (1).
The feature is 31m long by up to 14.7m wide. It may be a post medieval extractive pit.
The site is still fields on current Google Earth imagery. The feature may be visible as a cropmark in 2012 (2). It was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project.
Sources/Archives (2)
<1> SDO15972
Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 12-DEC-46. RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RP 3104-5.
<2> SDO12633
Aerial Photograph: Google Earth. 01-JUN-2012. Google Earth 2012.
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Location
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SU 0263 0339 (point) (38 map features)
Map sheet
SU00SW
Civil Parish
Holt; Dorset
Unitary Authority
Dorset
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None recorded
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None recorded
Record last edited
May 16 2018 12:25PM
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