Monument record MDO167 - 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. … E. ST 49990252 Weak, parallel strip lynchets running against the contours. <2>

A series of medieval strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on the eastern slopes of White Sheet Hill, to the east of Lake House Farm <3>. 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 Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 18-MAY-55 (Unpublished document).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> Dorset County Council, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs, 35001020.ecw (Aerial Photograph). SDO12570.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 193049 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Nov 14 2022 4:06PM