Monument record MDO2533 - Medieval strip lynchets at Chartknolle, Stoke Abbott

A series of medieval strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on 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.
A. Centred ST 432013. Pronounced parallel lynchets on a southern slope, weakening towards the south east.
B. Centred ST 454012. Two series of pronounced parallel contour-following lynchets.
C. Centred ST 459015. Weak lynchets, short and rather scrappy. <2>

A series of medieval strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the south 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.

'(16) LYNCHETS, on the S.E. slope of Chart Knolle immediately S.W. of Chart Knolle Farm'.

<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 Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 13-MAY-55 (Unpublished document).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> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1971, RAF RAF/39/3826 0137-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14507.

<4> Dorset County Council, XX-XXX-2009, Dorset CC Vertical Digital Photo Tile, ST4501.ecw (Aerial Photograph). SDO13314.

<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Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document).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 11:52AM