Monument record MDO24975 - Medieval strip fields, Gould's Bottom, Upwey, Weymouth

The remains of parallel field banks running East-West, considered likely to be the remains of medieval strip fields, are visible on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

The remains parallel field banks running E-W, considered likely to be the remains of medieval strip fields, are visible on aerial photographs <1>. The site was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

(SY 65948605) Two strip lynchets and fragments of a third, up to 2.0m. high, follow the contours. <2>

SY 652858 to SY 659860. Strip lynchets of contour type, almost destroyed, covered about 35 acres divided between West and
East fields on Tithe Map 1840. <3>

Contour-following strip lynchets, one conspicuous and two rather faint, are visible in the western half of the field centred at SY 65958605. Elsewhere on this side of the valley the lynchets appear to have been destroyed. <4>

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-1-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3295-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11932.

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 04-AUG-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 374 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘(394) STRIP LYNCHETS, formerly in Upwey parish, remain in three areas. … (b) Strip lynchets (652858 to 659860) of contour type, almost destroyed, covered about 35 acres divided between West and East Fields on the Tithe Map (1840), N. of the road to Waddon.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 21-APR-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451995 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jun 24 2022 1:01PM