Monument record MDO1627 - Medieval lynchets, Mapperton

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

('A' - SY 499986; 'B' - SY 495990) Strip lynchets plotted from air photographs. <1>

Lynchets form groups of terraces on a south slope 1100 yards SSW of Mapperton church (A), and on a west slope 1200 yards SW of Mapperton church (B). <2>

(A) Centred SY 49949870. An area of pronounced grass-covered medieval type strip lynchets, approximately parallel and in two series on a steep hill falling to the south. Partly tree-covered in the east.

(B) Centred SY 49529899. Two sets of approximately parallel strip lynchets up to 3.0 metres high, set on a western slope and grass-covered.

Boundaries to both areas were supplied by field survey, and they are unlikely ever to have extended further. <3>

(B) Lynchets (NR) (Lynchets at 'A' are shown but not described on OS 6" 1968 and OS 1:10 000 1976). <4>

A series of parallel lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery on the southern slopes of Mythe Hill <6-7>. They are considered to be of medieval origin and were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Atkinson, R J C, Annotated record map 1 to 6 inch scale, 1949 (Map). SDO18356.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 156 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(8) LYNCHETS form five groups of terraces in the S. part of the parish as follows: ... (d) on a S. slope, 1,100 yards S.S.W. of the church;’

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 26-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

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Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document).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

<6> Dorset County Council, 1972, DCC vertical aerial photographs, 0233.JPG (Aerial Photograph). SDO13329.

<7> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 1386-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14305.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 449964 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 14 2022 7:16PM