Monument record MDO2815 - Lynchets, Up Cerne

Medieval strip lynchets and field banks visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1947. Part of the medieval open field system around Up Cerne. The features are visible as sections of curvilinear banks on a 1947 aerial photograph and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

Centred at ST 66140262. An area of low, parallel strip lynchets and field banks, under crops, but clearly visible on air photographs. <2>

Lynchets and field banks have been ploughed out. Field under pasture on a west-facing slope. <3>

The features are visible as sections of curvilinear banks on a 1947 aerial photograph and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project. <1, 5>

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 1048-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17361.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, 22-SEP-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Phillips, A S, Various, Field Investigators Comments ASP, F1 ASP 15-JUL-77 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 198868 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<5> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1047 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20718.

Record last edited

Jul 9 2024 3:33PM