Monument record MDO159 - Medieval strip lynchets on Gold Hill, Beaminster

A series of parallel lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on the slopes of Gold Hill. They are considered to be of medieval origin and were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

(Centred ST 488000) Strip lynchets plotted from air photographs. <1> <2>

There are also lynchets on the north slopes of Gold Hill. <3>

Lynchets centred in three areas, and visible on air photograph … 'A' (ST 492000). Long contour following grass-covered strip lynchets, well pronounced and approximately parallel. <4>

A series of parallel lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on the slopes of Gold Hill. <1> <6>. They are considered to be of medieval origin and were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 3397-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14304.

<2> Atkinson, R J C, Annotated record map 1 to 6 inch scale, 1.3.49 (Map). SDO18356.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 27 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(64) LYNCHETS, on the N. slopes of Gold Hill nearly 1¼ m. S.E. of the church.'

<4> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 18-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<5> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 491999) Strip lynchets (NR)

<6> Ordnance Survey, 05-MAR-2000, OS/00978 001-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14303.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 193043 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 12 2022 11:43AM