Monument record MDO1116 - Medieval strip lynchets, Fleet

(SY 63558019) Strip lynchets, average 1.0m high, parallel to the contours along the south-western slopes of a hill. Below the lynchets and at right angles to the contours is a series of low field banks. <2>

The strip lynchets are clearly visible on air photographs in area SY 63558019. <3>

These prominent strip lynchets survive as described by authority 2. Three low field banks are visible below them, but they are of different character and not at all prominent. <4>

Seen on an AP of 1970. <5>

The medieval strip lynchets described above were digitally plotted from aerial photographs {6} as part of the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. NE-SW orientated field boundaries with associated ridge and furrow cultivation were also identified to the north of the prominent strip lynchets. <6>

<1> DCM, Annotated Record Map Corr. 6 Dorset Co Museum (Anon udt.) (Map). SWX2335.

Parallel lynchets.

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 11-AUG-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1969, OS/69/154 103-4, 22.5.69 (Aerial Photograph). SWX2337.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 24-APR-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Anon, 1970s APs, AP70_363000E_81000N (Digital archive). SWX8820.

<6> 01-FEB-1968, MAL/6804 015-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12109.

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452784 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 2 2023 12:17PM