Monument record MDO28 - Medieval strip field system east of Rodden, Abbotsbury

Centred at SY 613841. Three fields, under grass, with Medieval strip lynchets. The most easterly field shows the lynchets in good condition. They are regularly spaced and parallel, some being in a north-south direction, and others in an east-west direction, and average 0.5m high.

The lynchets are in poor condition in the two fields to the west, being faint and difficult to distinguish. The strip lynchets are faintly visible in area SY 613841. <4>

The earthwork remains of a medieval strip field system are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <2-3> between the east side of Rodden and Bramdon Lane. The strip lynchets are 15m apart and form part of a wider medieval field system surrounding the hamlet of Rodden. They were digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 11 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(38) LYNCHETS in two systems, E. of Rodden and towards the E. end of the parish. The strips are from 8 to 32 yards wide and 120 to 140 yards long.'

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 4291-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12116.

<3> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 6459-60 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12117.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 15-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452765 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 13 2023 11:02AM