— 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…
Category: chalk pits
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…