Monument record MDO2555 - Stratton Bottom: strip lynchets

(Centred at SY 65809435) "Lynchets, on a west slope, east and south-east of Newlands Plantation, 1/2m north-east of the church, consist of seven terraces". <1>

A system of Medieval type strip lynchets with varying widths of terraces and in some instances exceptionally strong lynchets. Under grass. See air photo CPE/UK/2431/4134. <2>

Lynchets in flights of four and five, and averaging 1.2 metres high, are as described by Authority (2). They extend for 700 metres along the steep west facing slope of the valley and are centred atSY 657943. <4>

A series of up to eighteen medieval strip lynchets are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs <5-7> on the east side of Stratton Bottom.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 229 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(18) LYNCHETS, on a W. slope E. and S.E. of Newlands Plantation, ½ m. N.E. of the church, consist of seven terraces.’

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 27-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 658944) Strip lynchets (NR)

<4> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 04-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<5> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 4231-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10890.

<6> Royal Air Force, 27-OCT-1971, RAF/39/3817 0138-40 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10891.

<7> 05-MAY-1989, NMR OS/89137 568-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10892.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453260 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 28 2023 12:08PM