Monument record MDO42249 - Medieval strip lynchets, Toller Porcorum

An extensive system of medieval strip lynchets is visible as earthworks on lidar imagery to either side of Toller Lane, Toller Porcorum. The features were digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project.

[Centred at SY 57079817] Well defined Md. strip lynchets, fairly regularly spaced and parallel, set in a N.W.-S.E.
direction. They are grass covered, and the lynchets are from 0.5m to 2.5m high. Visible on AP CPE/UK/1974/1386-87 <1>

Lynchets 1/2 mile E.N.E. of the church, form five terraces on a S.W. slope. <2>

An extensive system of medieval strip lynchets is visible as earthworks on lidar imagery <4> to either side of Toller Lane, Toller Porcorum. The features cover an area of 20 hectares and were digitally plotted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 253 (Monograph). SDO97.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 28-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 10-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450605 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 3 2023 10:32AM