Monument record MDO2136 - Lynchets, Powerstock

[area centred SY 52469660] Field systems plotted from air photographs. <1>

Scattered cultivation strips on steep grass covered valley sides. Of Medieval type, irregular and badly formed except at A [centred at SY 52409651] where they form a series of pronounced parallel strip lynchets. The boundary was supplied by field survey. Air photo cover was not available. <2>

[SY 52409620] Field system plotted from air photographs. <3>

"Lynchets on S. slope 500 yds E. of the church, part of a larger system now much eroded, extend for 300 yards. [see AP. CPE/UK/2475/3165] <4>

Pronounced, parallel grass-covered Medieval strip lynchet on both sides of a valley but more pronounced and more closely set on the west side of the stream. <5>

<1> Atkinson, R J C, 1949, spec 6 inch (RJCA 1.3.49) (Map). SWX1583.

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 27-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Atkinson, R J C, 1949, Annotated Record Map Rec. 6 (R J C Atkinson 1 3 49) (Map). SWX2397.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 186 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(35) LYNCHETS, on a S. slope, 500 yards E. of the church, part of a larger system now much eroded, extend for 300 yards.’

<5> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F2 JR 04-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

Record last edited

Jan 4 2023 10:29AM