Monument record MDO3011 - Strip Lynchets on Chapel Hill Coppice south of Winterborne Farringdon, Winterborne Came

The strip lynchets remain as described by R C H M (1), in permanent pasture. Area outlined on 1/10560 record sheet. <2>

Remains of terraced fields, probably the open fields of Winterborne Farringdon, visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and LIDAR. <3-8>. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 387 (Monograph). SDO149.

'(9) STRIP LYNCHETS (699882 TO 701880; Plate 197), now under pasture, cover 18 acres immediately S. of Monument (8). Most run along the contours W. of bank (e), and tracews of others E. of the bank run up and down a slope of 14 degrees to butt against another furlong running along the contours on the gentler slopes. All have been ploughed in narrow rig which has obscured some of the strip divisions. Most run out on to a headland. Those E. of the Chapel Hill Coppice are curiously low. (R.A.F. V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934 : 3084-5.)'.

<2> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 05-JUN-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<3> 21-FEB-2008, D0089663 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10908.

<4> Royal Air Force, 11-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2491 3012-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10906.

<5> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3083-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10903.

<6> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 4085-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10901.

<7> 01-DEC-1965, CUCAP (AMN 63-5) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11821.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451975 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Oct 25 2023 4:08PM