Monument record MDO1469 - Strip lynchets on Stony Head, Loders

A series of parallel medieval strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery on the south west facing slope at Stony Head, immediatey to the north of the Dorchester Road. They run roughly north west-south east for up to 510m and were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP project

"Lynchets on the S.W. slope of STONY HEAD, extend for about 200 yards, with terraces from 12 to 30ft. Wide. There are two other terraces further down the slope. [All in Area A]. <1>

A. Centred at [SY 49609335] B. Centred at [SY 49879365] … Area B. Approximately parallel strip lynchets which are partly portrayed on OS plans. The lynchets are pronounced. Some are under grass and some are surmounted by modern hedges or scrub. See AP/CPE/UK/2431/3161. <2>

A: Centred at SY 49429290; B: Centred at SY 49589317. … B: An area of similarly pronounced Md. Strip lynchets around the S. and W. sides of a low hill. The lynchets are grass covered. Both series are visible at AP CPE/UK/2431/3160-1 <3>

A series of parallel medieval strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery on the south west facing slope at Stony Head, immediately to the north of the Dorchester Road. They run roughly nw-se for up to 510m and were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP project <4>.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 141 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(22) LYNCHETS, on the S.W. slope of Stony Head and about ¼ m. S. of (21), extend for about 200 yards. The terraces vary from 12 to 30 ft. in width. There are two other terraces further down the slope.’

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 02-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 06-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, sy4992_dtm_50cm.asc (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 882448 (Index). SDO14738.

RCHME: Loders Strip Lynchets, Dorset

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document). SDO17367.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450099 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 19 2022 11:31AM