Monument record MDO39034 - Medieval strip lynchets and post medieval trackways, Stoke Knapp Farm, Stoke Abbott

A series of linear banks and ditches to the southeast of Stoke Knapp Farm, Stoke Abbott, are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s. The lynchets probably represent former medieval strip lynchets. Two long curving ditched linears show as trackways on an aerial photograph of 1947. These are not shown on the OS 1st Edition map and appear disused on the latest Google Earth imagery. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A series of linear banks and ditches to the southeast of Stoke Knapp Farm, Stoke Abbott, are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s (1). The lynchets probably represent former medieval strip lynchets. Two long curving ditched linears show as trackways on an aerial photograph of 1947. These are not shown on the OS 1st Edition map (2) and are visible on the latest Google Earth imagery (3) but appear disused. The lynchets are also visible on the latest Google Earth imagery (3). The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1075 FP 1082-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14843.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<3> Google Earth, 2006, Google Earth vertical photograph (Aerial Photograph). SDO14562.

Record last edited

Jul 26 2019 1:36PM