Monument record MDO42952 - Medieval field system, strip lynchets, Eastfield Hill, Sydling St Nicholas

Linear banks and scarps are visible as earthworks on current Lidar imagery on Eastfield Hill, Sydling St Nicholas. The features are recorded as a medieval field system and strip lynchets under NRHE Hob UID 453168). Some of the linear features closest to the eastern end of the south side of Eastfield Hill may alternatively be outliers of an Iron Age/Romano-British field system (MDO42951; NRHE Hob UID 868860) on the hill plateau above. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Centred SY 634990. A small system of low Medieval-type strip lynchets following the contour. <1>

Well defined on air photographs. <2>

The lynchets are in very poor condition and generally appear as little more than smoothed changes of slope on a steep hillside. <3>

Linear banks and scarps are visible as earthworks on current Lidar imagery <4> on Eastfield Hill, Sydling St Nicholas. The features are recorded as a medieval field system and strip lynchets under NRHE Hob UID 453168). Some of the linear features closest to the eastern end of the south side of Eastfield Hill may alternatively be outliers of an Iron Age/Romano-British field system (MDO42951) on the hill plateau above. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

<1> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 02-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 3377-78 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19985.

<3> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 24-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

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

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453168 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 23 2024 3:18PM