Monument record MDO160 - Medieval strip lynchets at Coombe, Beaminster

A series of medieval lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the north of Coombe Farm. They were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

Lynchets on a SW slope N of Coombe Cottage are fragmentary. <1>

Centred at ST 496000. These lynchets are approximately parallel but are weak and scattered. They are grass covered and of Medieval type. See AP/CPE/UK/1974/3397. <2>

A series of medieval lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the north of Coombe Farm <3>. They were digitally plotted as part of the Marshwood Vale NMP Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 27 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(65) LYNCHETS, on a S.W. slope N. of (59), are fragmentary.'

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 18-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 13-APR-1984, OS OS/84024 021-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14314.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 193046 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 14 2022 1:48PM