MEM25523 - Small post-medieval extractive pit on the north side of South Regis Common, Challacombe (Monument)

A small pit with a spoil heap on its north side lies on South Regis Common, close to a field boundary.This feature was identified on aerial photographs and interpreted as a prehistoric barrow or cairn but is a small extractive pit, probably for stone, dug in the later part of the 19th century following the enclosure of the commons.

A small pit with a spoil heap on its north side lies on South Regis Common, close to a field boundary. The pit is 3.4m N/S, 1.5m E/W and 0.6m deep; the mound is 2m E/W, 1m N/S and 0.7m high. This feature was identified on aerial photographs and interpreted as a prehistoric barrow or cairn but is a small extractive pit, probably for stone, dug in the later part of the 19th century following the enclosure of the commons. [1]