Monument record MDO24783 - Causeway Farm, strip lynchets

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Parallel banked features, possibly the remains of medieval strip lynchets, visible as low earthworks on aerial photographs.

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Parallel banked features are visible as low earthworks on aerial photographs {1} running east-west along the contours to the west of Causeway Farm. They are possibly the remains of medieval cultivation terraces or strip lynchets and were digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.


<1> 01-FEB-1968, MAL 6804 059-60 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11980.

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  • <1> Aerial Photograph: 01-FEB-1968. MAL 6804 059-60.

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Grid reference Centred SY 6604 8137 (88m by 177m) (8 map features)
Map sheet SY68SE
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Aug 23 2024 12:54PM

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