Monument record MDO1735 - Lynchets, Nether Cerne

A medieval field system in the form of earthwork terraces known as strip lynchets. Overlying a prehistoric field system. A series of closely parallel banked lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project

Strip Cultivation. <1>

Lynchets on a W slope 500 yds ESE of the church. The system consists of twenty strips across the contours about 220 yds long. <2>

A. SY 674981 A well defined system of Md strip lynchets immediately adjacent to and apparently superimposed upon an IA/RB type field system which is only vaguely visible as fragmentary lynchets.
See air photo CPE/UK/2475/3122. <3>

Bulldozed out; only the two northernmost lynchets remain of the Md system and nothing remains of the `Celtic' field system. <5>

Strip Lynchets <6>

A series of closely parallel banked lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features are considered to be medieval strip lynchets. In places these overlie, and partly intermerge with, part of a later prehistoric field system. The features appear to extend for a further 150m south than the area currently identified. They were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. <8-10>

<1> Crawford, O G S, Annotated record map 6 inch, 16.3.50 (Map). SWX7265.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 86 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(6) LYNCHETS, on a W. slope 500 yards E.S.E. of the church. The system consists of twenty strips across the contours about 220 yards long.'

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 03-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1975 (Map). SDO17396.

(SY 674981) Strip Lynchets (NR)

<5> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 11-DEC-80 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 1980s, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map, epoch six (Map). SDO13933.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452857 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<8> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FP 1372 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21003.

<9> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 RP 3123 (Aerial Photograph). SDO21041.

<10> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

Record last edited

Oct 25 2024 2:51PM