Monument record MDO27 - Strip lynchets, Stavordale Wood, Abbotsbury

Medieval strip lynchets to the south of Stavordale Wood. The features are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs and may be semi-natural in origin.

Lynchets on the S slope, S of Stavordale Wood extend for about 600 yards, with terraces from 4 to 17 yards wide. <2>

A series of well pronounced strip lynchets, parallel and following the contours. Medieval type. Under pasture. See air photograph RAF CPE/UK/2431 4286. <4>

SY 565846. Lynchets S of Stavordale Wood. <6>

Medieval strip lynchets to the south of Stavordale Wood. The features are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs and Lidar imagery <7-9> and may be semi-natural in origin. The features were digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Crawford, O G S, Annotated record map 6 inch (Map). SWX7265.

Strip Lynchets

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 11 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(37) LYNCHETS, on the S. slope, S. of Stavordale Wood and ¾ m. W.S.W. of the church, extend for about 600 yards, with terraces from 4 to 17 yards wide.’

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 1 6th Ed (Map). SWX1684.

(SY 564846) Strip Lynchets (NR)

<4> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 23-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<5> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1967 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred SY 564846) Strip lynchets (NR)

<6> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 83 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<7> 14-JUL-2003, D0028549 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12195.

<8> 21-APR-1984, NMR OS/84039 314-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12196.

<9> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3317-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12186.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450555 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 12 2023 12:43PM