Monument record MDO29221 - Undated lynchet, Weston Farm, Worth Matravers

A wide linear banked feature is visible as earthworks on lidar to the north of Renscombe Road, Weston Farm, Worth Matravers. It is of uncertain origin, potentially prehistoric or medieval in date.

A small group of medieval strip lynchets is shown on RCHM plan (with SY 97 NE 14), but not described in the text, just north of Renscombe Farm, on North Hill, at SY 966779. <1>

The strip lynchets centred at SY 96657790 occupy c3.5 hectares of a level arable field. The six or seven surviving strips, which lie on a NW/SE axis, have been almost completely ploughed out and are now difficult to trace; even their widths cannot be measured with any accuracy because the field is regularly ploughed across the ridges. No survey action. <2>

A wide linear banked feature is visible as earthworks on lidar to the north of Renscombe Road, Weston Farm, Worth Matravers <3-4>. It is of uncertain origin, potentially prehistoric or medieval in date. The site was digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 414, Plan (Monograph). SDO149.

<2> Fletcher, Martin, Field investigator's comments MJF, F1 MJF 25-APR-86 (Unpublished document). SDO17630.

<3> Channel Coastal Observatory, 23-MAR-2008, Lidar (Photograph). SDO12878.

<4> Channel Coastal Observatory, 25-FEB-2009, Lidar (Aerial Photograph). SDO12879.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456478 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 9 2022 6:41PM