Monument record MDO25010 - Medieval lynchets near Preston, Weymouth

(Centred at SY 69258325) Cultivation strips situated on a steep hillside and under pasture. Vaguely parallel
though forming no set pattern. Banks up to 4.0m high and tillable width average 6.0m weaker lynchets and field banks exist under pasture in the south and west. <1>

Cement-stone outcrops in the faces of the risers at the foot of 'Tout' (centred at SY 692834 on plan) suggest artificial construction of the strip lynchets. <2>

Centred at SY 69258325 strip lynchets as described by authority 1 and 2. They form a prominent feature on this S facing hill-slope. <3>

Medieval strip lynchets and field boundaries visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <4-5> and LiDAR imagery <6> on the slopes of the steep ridge to the north-west of Preston. The features were digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 15-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<1.1> Royal Air Force, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3334 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20044.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 23 (Monograph). SDO148.

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 04-SEP-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3242 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11964.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 07-MAR-1971, NMR OS/71004 036-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12060.

<6> 2006, LiDAR D0059946 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11969.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452636 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 16 2025 4:57PM