Monument record MDO349 - Strip lynchets at Walditch, Bothenhampton

A system of medieval strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and aerial photographs to the south of Walditch on Walditch Knap. They were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP project.

The system of medieval strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and aerial photographs to the south of Walditch on Walditch Knap. They were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP project (2-3).

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 30 (Monograph). SDO97.

'The following lynchets (16 and 17) no doubt form part of the former field-systems of their respective villages. (16) LYNCHETS (Plate 70), to the E., W. and S. of Walditch village, form ten groups as follows: (a) on an E. slope about 650 yards E.S.E. of the church, a series now about 200 yards long but formerly extending another 200 yards to the S.; the terraces are 10 to 12 yards wide; (b) traces of a series on a W. slope, S.E. of (a); (c) series of four terraces on a N.E. slope, 100 yards W. of (a), about 10 to 15 yards wide; (d) series of terraces imediately N. of (c) and forming a right-angled bend facing the E. and N.; (e) irregular terraces to the S.W. of (d); (f) series facing N.E., about 250 yards long and 300 yards S.W. of (d); (g) series facing N.W., 600 yards N.W. of the church and about 250 yards long; (h) series facing N.E. and at right angles to (g); (i) three terraces facing S.W. and on the opposite side of the re-entrant to (h); (j) three or four terraces facing N. adjoining and nearly at right angles to (i).'

<2> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, sy4892sw_dtm_50cm.asc (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<3> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3162-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14116.

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