Monument record MDO2532 - Medieval strip lynchets on the southern slope of Chart Knolle, Stoke Abbott

A series of medieval strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the southern slope of Chartknolle, Stoke Abbott. They were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP and form part of a wider system of medieval strip fields.

Lynchets form three terraces on the south slope of Chart Knolle, east of Waddon Hill, and there are others on the south-east slope immediately south-west of Chart Knolle Farm. <1>

Three areas of grass-covered medieval type strip lynchets, visible on air photographs. B. Centred ST 454012. Two series of pronounced parallel contour-following lynchets. <2>

A series of medieval strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on the southern slopes of Chartknolle, Stoke Abbott <3-4>. They were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP and form part of a wider system of medieval strip fields.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 226 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(15) LYNCHETS, on the S. slope of Chart Knolle immediately E. of (14), form three terraces'.

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 13-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<2.1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 2341-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14522.

<3> Dorset County Council, XX-XXX-2009, Dorset CC Vertical Digital Photo Tile, ST4502.ecw (Aerial Photograph). SDO13314.

<4> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 2404-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14508.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document). SDO17367.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 193016 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 30 2022 12:11PM