Monument record MDO1308 - Medieval strip lynchets, Pitcombe, Kingston Russell

Three series of lynchets are on the south and west slopes of a hill 1/4 mile north-west of Littlebredy. <1>

Centred at 'A' - SY 582897; ('B' - SY 587897; 'C' - SY 585894; 'D' - SY 59078926; 'E' - SY 58828918. Five areas of medieval type strip lynchets. 'A' is partly cultivated, and is an area with parallel lynchets dividing field strips. The other series are of grass and tree covered lynchets parallel and regularly spaced. Visible on air photographs RAF CPE/UK/1824 4283-4. <2>

A series of parallel strip lynchets of probable medieval date, visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <4-5> to the north-west and south-west of Pitcombe. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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

'(13) LYNCHETS, on the S.E. slope of Whatcombe Down, 1,100 yards E.N.E. of Kingston Russel House, form five terraces'.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 31-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1967 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 582897; SY 585894; SY 585892; SY 588891) Strip Lynchets (NR) (four times)

<4> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 5099-100 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11149.

<5> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053 004-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11126.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450411 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 17 2023 10:30AM