Monument record MDO29184 - Medieval strip lynchets, Swalland Farm, Kimmeridge

(Area centred SY 92987860) Field System. Pronounced strip lynchets here. <1>

Strip lynchets at SY 930787, cut by bench quarrying, belong to the former hamlet of Little Kimmeridge. <2>

Almost ploughed out; about 8 ha. of former lynchets can be detected, mainly as soil marks in arable. <3>

A series of denuded medieval strip lynchets to the north-east of Swalland Farm are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <4>. Some are still extant earthworks on Channel Coast Observatory lidar taken in 2008 and 2009 <5-6>.The site was digitally mapped as part of the the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

<1> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 29-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 135 (Monograph). SDO148.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 28-APR-86 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Royal Air Force, 27-MAR-1945, RAF 106G/LA200 2012-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12886.

<5> Channel Coastal Observatory, 23-MAR-2008, Lidar (Photograph). SDO12878.

<6> Channel Coastal Observatory, 25-FEB-2009, Lidar (Aerial Photograph). SDO12879.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456520 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 5 2023 4:29PM