Monument record MDO1403 - Littlebredy, strip lynchets

Medieval strip lynchets to the north of Stone Hills Withy Bed. These features are marked on the OS 1:10,000 scale map and form part of a wider medieval field system visible as earthworks on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. {1}

'(16) Lynchets, on the S. and W. slopes of a hill ¼ m. N.W. of the church, form three series:- (a) on a W. slope and about 220 yds. long; (b) on a W. slope to the S.E. of (a) and also about 220 yds. along [sic]; (c) on a S. slope, N. of (b), and about 200 yards long.' {2}

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3099-100 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11648.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 39 (Monograph). SDO97.

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Jan 27 2025 1:58PM