Monument record MDO2159 - Medieval strip lynchets, Poxwell

Area centred at SY 745843. Strip lynchets. <2>

Three lynchets, each approximately 2.0m. high. Two set in a north west to south east direction, run across the contour rather than with it. The third running north east to south west follows the natural contour. All lie within a pasture field. <3>

Around SY 744843 in the former East Field, are strip lynchets of up-and-down type, butting against contour type. More up-and-down type lynchets and traces are shown further south (SY 745842) and (SY 746839) on the Medieval field plan (see attached). <5>

This strip field system has been subjected to annual ploughing and the only remains worth of note are the three lynchets centred at
SY 74528430 but even these are reduced to rounded scarps. Depiction on 1:2500 MSD correct. Area outlined on 1:10560 Record Sheet. <6>

A series of medieval strip field boundaries are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the north-east of Poxwell <1> <>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 3339-40 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11766.

<2> RCHM Mss file (Unpublished document). SWX2467.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 15-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1968, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1967, 135-139 (Serial). SDO67.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 263 (Monograph). SDO149.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 08-AUG-60 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

HER note: date as NRHE but 1960 seems unlikely for JGB.

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<8> Bowen, H C, Externally held archive: AF0615737 RCHME: Bowen, H C - Notebooks and Plans (Unpublished document). SDO17437.

<9> 23-JAN-2007, NMR SY 7484/11-18 (24521/19-26) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11769.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454415 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 23 2024 12:45PM