Monument record MDO1470 - Strip lynchets on Waddon Hill, Loders

The remains of medieval cultivation terraces or strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and aerial photographs surrounding Waddon Hill and Symes's Hill. The features are digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP project.

The remains of medieval cultivation terraces or strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and aerial photographs surrounding Wadden Hill and Symes's Hill, to the north of Loders. The features are digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP project. (2-3).

VAP RAF CPE/UK/2475: 4048

A: Lynchets round the W. end of WADDON HILL extend for about 660yds, and the terraces average 27 ft. wide.
B: On the N. side of the ASKER valley lynchets have been much destroyed. <1>

A Centred at [SY 49559453]
B Centred at [SY 50409401]
C Centred at [SY 49879434]
D Centred at [SY 50059430]

Area A - mainly weak, irregular and scattered lynchets of Medieval type except on either side of the hill between WADDON COPSE and SYMES'S HILL COPSE where they are parallel and pronounced strip lynchets. The area is partly under grass, partly under the plough and partly tree covered.

Area B. Three well developed and parallel strip lynchets on a hillside sloping steeply to the south. There is evidence that the lynchets are breaking and slipping slightly downhill. Grass and bush covered.

Area C A small area of grass covered and fairly weak strip lynchets on low lying land.

Area D. Pronounced and approximately parallel strip lynchets partly under grass and partly in woodland.

See AP CPE/UK/2431/4160 & 61 (<2>

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

‘(23) LYNCHETS, extending round the western end of Waddon Hill ¼ m. N.E. of the church, extend for about 660 yards. The terraces average about 27 ft. in width.’

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 Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 02-MAY-55 (Unpublished document).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

<3> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<4> National Monuments Record, 06-OCT-2000, NMR 18963/08-9 (SY4994/3-4) (Aerial Photograph). SDO14122.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document). SDO17367.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450066 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 22 2024 2:15PM