Monument record MDO1803 - Lynchets, Oborne

ST 65551900. Long, fairly parallel and pronounced Medieval type strip lynchets. Fern and grass covered and situated on a fairly steep slope. <1>

There are two groups of strip lynchets at ST 656196. East of the road there are two strip lynchets, about 700 ft long and under grass, with vestiges of 'Celtic' field lynchets higher up the slope. West of the road there are at least 4 strip lynchets up to 500 ft long, also under grass. <2>

Centred at ST 65651983 are the vestigial remains of six lynchets, 0.5 to 1.0m high, extending for up to 400.0m upon a steep south west facing slope under bracken and rough pasture. Below, at the southern end, upon a gentle north west facing pasture slope are ploughed-down traces of two, possible three Medieval strip lynchets, and to the west upon a south facing pasture slope, at ST 65471947, are three strip lynchets, up to 150.0m in length and from 0.5 to 1.2m in height. <3>

<1> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 21-JUL-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, RCHM Ms File (unpublished revision of Dorset 1), No 6 24 9 76 (Unpublished document). SDO17382.

<2.1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 2296-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18022.

<3> Phillips, A S, Various, Field Investigators Comments ASP, F2 ASP 24-NOV-77 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document). SDO17367.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 199318 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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May 27 2022 3:12PM