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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… heartland of Cranborne Chase. They are restricted to the Chalk, except in a few instances where thin superficial … the Eocene deposits in the S.E. Their distribution on the Chalk, however, is by no means uniform; as yet they have not … remains, are found on the steeper slopes, and on the Chalk these occur more frequently in the N. than in the S. of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… a lengthy process of attrition. The fields all lie on the Chalk and can be detected over substantial areas of former … to have covered much of the summit and the slopes of the Chalk escarpment in these parishes. Subsequent destruction …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… of fields and associated features over some 3,000 acres of Chalk is demonstrated by Groups (44) and (45). There is … continuous and it is therefore possible that on the Chalk alone they covered 50,000 acres. Destruction has been … the Iron Age settlement at Marnhull (69), with its storage pits and other evidence indicating arable cultivation, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… a much repaired roof of collar-beam type. The walls are of chalk and stone rubble. The barn was built probably in the … of a third outside the main bank. There are numerous pits mostly between the main dyke and that under (30). One of … plan A. There are traces of various sinkings presumably pits. About 150 ft. N.E. of the triangular enclosure is an …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… are slight indications of an external ditch but quarry pits along the outer edge of the scarp, as well as within the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… above the marshes, and the surrounding lands abound with chalk. At the time of the Norman survey, the parish belonged … by depressions and elevations, and the leading soil is chalk, with occasional admixtures of gravel resting upon a substratum of chalk. Here are some quarries of a soft species of stone, not …
A History of the County of Essex
… port for coastal shipping. At Grays and West Thurrock the chalk outcrop provided materials for an ancient quarrying …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… ft. above O.D., the land rises gently at first across the Chalk and then steeply to the summit of Chalbury Hill, a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… form the S. seaward boundary. Most of this area is on Chalk with a general E.-W. ridge over 500 ft. above O.D. from which dry valleys drain S. and N. Further N. the Chalk has been eroded and the underlying Wealden Beds … antedated the toft lay-out; no building was found but pits, ditches and a few post-holes contained pottery probably …