Monument record MDO164 - Medieval strip lynchets on White Sheet Hill, Beaminster

Medieval strip lynchets on White Sheet Hill, Beaminster. They form part of a wider system of medieval strip fields and were digitally plotted from lidar imagery and aerial photographs during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

Lynchets on the W and SE slopes of White Sheet Hill and extending some distance to the east, form a number of groups of which those on White Sheet Hill are the best defined. <1>

Six areas of medieval type strip lynchets centred ST 4902, all under grass, and visible on air photographs. … B. ST 49600265. Two series of pronounced and parallel lynchets. <2>

A series of medieval strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery on the eastern slopes of White Sheet Hill, to the west and north of Lake House Farm <3-6>. They form part of a wider system of medieval strip fields and were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

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

'(68) LYNCHETS, on the W. and S.E. slopes of White Sheet Hill 1¼ m. N.E. of the church and extending some distance to the E., form a number of groups of which those on White Sheet Hill are the best defined.'

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 Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 18-MAY-55 (Unpublished document).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

<2.1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 1087-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14540.

<3> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, ST4902_dtm_1m.asc (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 17-APR-1973, OS OS/73085 023-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14513.

<5> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1975, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 1074-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14512.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 14-JUN-1970, OS/70215 007-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14514.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 193049 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 14 2022 3:59PM