Monument record MDO43047 - Post medieval chalk pits, Bazon Hill, Up Cerne

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Summary

Sub circular ditched and scarped features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs on Bazon Hill, Up Cerne. The larger features are recorded as old chalk pits on the OS 1st Edition map. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

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Sub circular ditched and scarped features are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs on Bazon Hill, Up Cerne (1). The larger features are recorded as old chalk pits on the OS 1st Edition map (2). They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project. Some features are under trees and barely visible on current Google Earth imagery. Others are still visibler as earthworks and cropmarks.

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  • <1> Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 11-APR-47. RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1050-1.
  • <2> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1864, 1886. Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one. paper. 1:2500.

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Grid reference ST 6462 0382 (point) (234 map features)
Map sheet ST60SW
Civil Parish Up Cerne; Dorset

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Record last edited

Feb 10 2021 3:48PM

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