Monument record MDO38562 - Medieval strip lynchets, Cockpit Hill, Pilsdon

A series of potential medieval strip lynchets on the east side of Cockpit Hill are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1970s. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A series of curving lynchets on the east side of Cockpit Hill are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1970s (1). The curvilinear form and close parallel setting of the northern group of lynchets suggest possible medieval strip lynchets, although this is not so clear in the southwestern group. The lynchets are still visible on the latest Google Earth imagery (2), although there is some loss of visibility of the northernmost group of lynchets. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 06 OCT 1971, RAF/39/3800 V 0108-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14774.

<2> Google Earth, 2006, Google Earth vertical photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO14562.

Record last edited

Jul 26 2019 11:20AM