Monument record MDO1306 - Kingston Russell House, medieval strip field system with associated ridge and furrow

Lynchets, in two groups each of four terraces, lie on a SE slope 1/4 mile N of Kingston Russell House. <1>

Areas of medieval type strip lynchets. Visible on air photographs CPE/UK/1824 4285-6:
A. Centred SY 57398995. Four grass covered widely spaced strip lynchets, set in an E-W direction, and averaging 1.3m high.
B Centred SY 57928996. A series of very mutilated grass covered strip lynchets set in an E-W direction. The lynchets are regularly spaced and parallel.
C. Centred SY 58108979. A series of much mutilated grass covered strip lynchets, intermittent, but regularly spaced and parallel.
D. Centred SY 57408987. Four E-W lynchets in a grass field. The lynchets are widely spaced and average 1.5m high. <2>

A system of medieval strip fields with associated ridge and furrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photograph to the north of Kingston Russel House. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. <3-4>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 129 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(11) Lynchets, on a S.E. slope ¼ m. N. of Kingston Russell House, form four terraces.'

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 30-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 4285-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11645.

<4> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053 005-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11111.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450246 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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May 31 2022 11:24AM