Monument record MDO1596 - Medieval strip lynchets, Maiden Newton

Medieval strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery on a west facing slope to the north east of Maiden Newton. They were digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project.

Lynchets on a western slope, half a mile north of the church form two terraces. <1>

Md type cultivation terraces with lynchets, average 3.0m high, follow the contours of a steep hill. Under grass. See Air photo CPE/UK/1974/3383. <2>

Medieval strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery on a west facing slope to the north east of Maiden Newton <3>. They run roughly north south and are immediately adjacent to, and may have reused some of the boundaries associated with, the prehistoric field system described in MDO679. The site was digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 153 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(20) LYNCHETS, on a W. slope ½ m. N. of the church, form two terraces.'

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 13-JAN-53 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450693 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 24 2024 11:35AM