Monument record MDO30954 - Historic field banks, Upton Heath, Lynchett Minster

Two linear banks are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of Upton Heath, Lynchett Minster taken in 1947. Earthworks are delineated here on the Third Edition OS Map (2). They are considered likely to be the remains of historic lynchets.

Two linear banks are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of Upton Heath, Lynchett Minster taken in 1947 (1). Earthworks are delineated here on the Third Edition OS Map (2). They are considered likely to be the remains of historic field boundaries or lynchets. These features were digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project. They are not visible on the most recent Google Earth imagery, this area now being obscured with scrub.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 4043-44 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13538.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1923-33, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch three (Map). SDO11595.

Record last edited

Aug 18 2015 9:52AM