Monument record MDO30763 - Medieval or post medieval lynchets, Langton Matravers

An area of medieval or post medieval lynchets and a block of ridge and furrow are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s to the south east of the High Street, Langton Matravers.

SZ 001788-SZ 002784. Medieval strip lynchets of contour and up-and-down types, cover about 10 acres south of Putlake Farm. The very fragmentary remains are arranged in butting furlongs and are extensively cut into by later quarries. <2>

An area of medieval or post medieval lynchets and a block of ridge and furrow are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s to the south east of the High Street, Langton Matravers. The features are visible over an area measuring approximately 475 m by 305m. The southern area of ridges are still visible as earthworks on the most recent photography available to the project. <3> These features were digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey (Index). SDO147.

‘The site lies in permanent grassland, disturbed by disused stone quarries. Farm buildings lie to the N. SZ07NW31. 7/7/D.’

<1.1> Royal Air Force, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 5400 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20705.

<2> Royal Air Force, 14-MAR-1945, RAF 106G/LA194 282-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13413.

<3> Google Earth, 01-JUN-2012, Google Earth 2012 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12633.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457487 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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