— by Rebecca Bennett — 2025 saw the official end of the Chase and Chalke project but nevertheless it was another active year for the volunteer group that formed around the lidar…
Author: Rebecca Bennett
Preliminary geoarchaeology of the Netton Clump depressions
— report by Michael J Allen — In August 2024 the Chase Chalke volunteers joined Mike Allen to undertake two days of hand augering to define the nature, character and potentially depth…
Curious Cursus: looking at the evidence with a new ‘light’
— by Rebecca Bennett — In August I was asked to give a talk at the fabulous Curious Cursus event, which sadly due to family commitments I couldn’t attend in person. My…
How many wheelbarrow loads would it take to empty a typical chalk pit?
— by Steve G — That is a good question and one that is relatively easy to answer if you have access to LIDAR data within a reasonably-featured GIS (Geographic Information System)…
Obsessed with LiDAR?
— by Steve G — A word of warning here. Be very careful getting too involved with citizen science projects that involve LiDAR, like for example the excellent “Champions of the Past”…
Naishes Farm – Revealing History Ancient and Modern
— by John Mullin — LiDAR provides us with a new way of seeing history on the ground, often in areas of woodland or scrub where traditional methods of surveying would have…
Chalk pits mapping project
— by Rebecca Bennett — As part of the lidar mapping project and field visits, a very large number of regularly spaced pits have been noticed across the Chase & Chalke project…
Visiting the Chalk Pits at Netton Clump
— by Yvonne Crossley — I first became interested in LiDAR maps of the Burcombe landscape when I found iron pyrites nodules on a walk around the top of the Punchbowl near…
Similar but different – LiDAR in Cranborne Chase and the Chilterns
— by Vivienne Blandford — This is a very broad-brush comment about a landscape led approach which compares the type of archaeological features that have been mapped/visualised by LiDAR on what are…
some thoughts on chalk pit patterns
— by Vivienne Blandford & Rebecca Bennett — When considering the nature of the pits we have identified in the LiDAR of the Chase it is useful to compare their pattern and…