Monument record MDO37316 - Medieval strip lynchets, Trent

At ST 602183 there are fragments of strip lynchets and several fields in the vicinity with broad rig. <1>

Some rig and furrow was noted but no trace of strip lynchets was found. <3>

A group of circa four lynchets are visible, centred at ST 6028 1934, in LiDAR imagery and recent satellite photography, and are also faintly visible in 1947, as cited above. <6, 7>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, RCHM Ms File (unpublished revision of Dorset 1), No 38 23 9 76 (Unpublished document). SDO17382.

<1.1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 2140-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17481.

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document). SDO17367.

<3> Phillips, A S, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments ASP, F1 ASP 28-NOV-77 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

<4> Dorset County Council, 2009, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12079.

<5> Historic England, National Record of the Historic Environment, 199512 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<6> Environment Agency, 2022, LiDAR Composite Viewer - Digital Terrain Model 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO21777.

<7> Google Earth, 2009, Google Earth 2009 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12705.

Record last edited

Jul 10 2026 3:48PM