Monument record MDO1528 - Medieval strip lynchets, Long Bredy

300-400yds S.S.E of the church on W. and S.W. slopes of a spur are some much worn lynchets, but which in places form three terraces utilising natural scarps. <1>

(Centred at SY 57269013) A grass covered area of lynchets. These follow the contours on a fairly steep slope and are fairly regularly spaced and parallel. The lynchets are from 0.5m. to 3.0m. high, but in poor condition and mutilated by rabbits. From the extreme length of the lynchets it seems that they may be of Md. origin, but this is by no means certain, for a probable 1A/RB system exisited to the N. on the top of the spur. This system is treated on 39 SW4 These lynchets are visible on AP. CPE/UK/1824/4286. <2>

A series of medieval strip lynchets lie to the east of Long Bredy. They are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <3-4>. 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), 43 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(21) LYNCHETS, 300-400 yards S.S.E. of the church, on the W. and S.W. slopes of a spur, are much worn but in places form three terraces utilising natural scarps.'

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 02-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 3063-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11112.

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

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451032 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 4 2023 10:27AM