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| HER Number: | MDV116051 |
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| Name: | Extraction Pits south of Whitehall Woods, Membury and Axminster Parish |
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Summary
Three probable post-medieval or early modern extractive pits are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken from 1947 onwards and on images derived from lidar data captured between 1998 and 2014.
Location
| Grid Reference: | ST 273 014 |
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| Map Sheet: | ST20SE |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Axminster |
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| Civil Parish | Membury |
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| District | East Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | AXMINSTER |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | MEMBURY |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses: none recorded
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- EXTRACTIVE PIT (Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Full description
Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.
No particular features are depicted in this location, although the larger area is depicted as scrub and trees.
Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1124-1125 11-APR-1947 (Aerial Photograph). SDV359646.
Two earthwork pits are visible.
Environment Agency, 1998-2014, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution), LIDAR ST2701 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 30-SEP-2014 (Cartographic). SDV359177.
Three earthwork pits are visible.
Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R., 2016-2018, The Blackdown Hills AONB and East Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV359463.
Two roughly oval earthwork pits, between 10 and 62 metres in maximum visible extent, are visible on images derived from lidar data captured between 1998 and 2014 and aerial photographs taken from the 1940s onwards. They are not depicted on the historic mapping, suggesting that they were probably disused by the late-19th century. An additional area of extraction may have been located in the southern part of what is now Whitehall Woods; the ground surface is obscured by the tree canopy in the aerial imagery, but lidar-derived images indicate that the edge of the scarp appears to have been cut into for a distance of 220 in two plots of land. This area is depicted as woodland on the Tithe map, and extraction probably pre-dated the mid-19th century.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV336179 | Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 1880-1899. First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map. First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. Map (Digital). |
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| SDV359177 | Cartographic: Environment Agency. 1998-2014. LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution). Environment Agency LiDAR data. Digital. LIDAR ST2701 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 30-SEP-2014. [Mapped feature: #75395 ] |
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| SDV359463 | Interpretation: Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R.. 2016-2018. The Blackdown Hills AONB and East Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project. Historic England Research Report. Digital. |
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| SDV359646 | Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1947. RAF/CPE/UK/1975. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1124-1125 11-APR-1947. |
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Associated Monuments: none recorded
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- EDV7508 - The Blackdown Hills AONB and East Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme (NMP) project (Ref: ACD1228)
| Date Last Edited: | Mar 20 2018 1:04PM |
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