Monument record MDO1178 - Field system, Hampton Hill, Frampton

Well preserved earthworks of a Medieval field system with strip lynchets, field boundaries and ridge and furrow visible as low earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs.

Centred at SY 624941 and SY 627940. Two distinct areas with Medieval strip lynchets. The area to the north-west of the valley bottom has three parallel NE-SW strips, each averaging 8.0 metres wide, the lynchets being from 1.0 to 1.5 metres high.
This area is wooded. The larger area on the south-east side of the valley has a large number of parallel strip lynchets which are poorly developed, and average 0.5 metres high. <1>

Well preserved earthworks of a Medieval field system with strip lynchets, field boundaries and ridge and furrow visible as low earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs. <2-8>

<1> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 21-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2> 15-SEP-1979, NMR OS/79123 294-96 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11290.

<3> 14-JUN-1988, NMR OS/88184 668 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11289.

<4> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3268-70 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11216.

<5> 14-APR-1984, NMR OS/84029 239-40 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11214.

<6> 31-OCT-1988, CUCAP (RC8LE135) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11183.

<7> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3266-68 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11177.

<8> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 4093-95 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11174.

<9> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document). SDO17367.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453596 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 22 2024 4:03PM