Monument record MDO1763 - Medieval strip lynchets, Netherbury

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

Lynchets on the south slope of South Warren Hill consist of four terraces with an average width of 22 feet. <1>

Lynchets centred at SY 484991 are as described above. They are of medieval type, long and well-pronounced, approximately parallel and grass-covered. <2>

A series of parallel lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on the slopes of South Warren Hill <4-5>. They are considered to be of medieval origin 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), 175 (Monograph). SDO97.

(42) LYNCHETS, on the S. slope of South Warren Hill, nearly 1 m. E. of the church, consist of four terraces with an average width of 22 ft.

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 10-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 48389907-48539922) Lynchets (NR)

<4> Dorset County Council, 1972, DCC vertical aerial photographs, 233.jpg (Aerial Photograph). SDO13329.

<5> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, SY4899sw_dtm_50cm.asc and SY4899se_dtm_50cm.asc (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 449940 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 14 2022 4:56PM