Monument record MDO1710 - Strip lynchet, Melcombe Horsey

An area of strip lynchets. There were formerly about 30 acres of strip fields some 600 yds NW of Bingham's Melcombe House, but they have now been destroyed.

OS RECORDS

An area of strip lynchets. <1>

Areas centred 'A'. ST 76700245. 'B'. ST 76900242. 'C'. ST 77000225.

Area 'A' was under crops and not closely investigated. Only faint parallel crop marks were noted.

Area 'B' - pronounced grass and partly tree covered parallel strip lynchets. There is a slightly raised bank along the top of many of the lynchets.

Area 'C' - Weak parallel field banks, grass covered. <2>

There were formerly about 30 acres of strip fields some 600 yds NW of Bingham's Melcombe House, but they have now been destroyed. <3>

<1> RCHM Mss file (Unpublished document). SWX2467.

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 19-AUG-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 171 (Monograph). SDO136.

<3.1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3106 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17623.

<3.2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3107-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17631.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 201827 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 14 2022 8:48AM