Monument record MDO1172 - Medieval strip lynchets, West Hill Bottom, Frampton

(Centred at SY 60759330). "Lynchets, on a south-east slope .. south of (SY 69 SW 3) form three terraces from 22 to 32 yards wide".<2>

(SY60659330) on the north-west side of the valley are pronounced lynchets, the terraces 6.0 to 30.0 metres wide, and the lynchets from 1.0 to 2.0 metres high. On the opposite, south-east side of the valley, is a single terrace utilized as a trackway, while in the extreme south centred at SY60579313; are a number of very low and barely developed strip lynchets. Although adjoining an Iron Age/Romano British system, these particular lynchets appear to be of medieval type. See also RAF air photographs CPE/UK2431/4143-4. <2>

A medieval field system comprising of strip lynchets are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs <3-5>.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 117 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(26) Lynchets, on a S.E. slope nearly 1¾ m. S.W. of the church and S. of (12), form three terraces from 22 yards to 32 yards wide.’

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 21-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2.1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 4143-44 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11305.

<3> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 4093-95 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11174.

<4> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053 038-41 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11304.

<5> 15-SEP-1979, NMR OS/79123 296-98 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11303.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453590 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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