— 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…
Category: chalk pits
Visiting the Chalk Pits at Netton Clumps
— 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…