Monument record MDO43490 - Strip lynchets, Pimperne

An area, centred ST 878090, contains fairly pronounced lynchets following the contours. These lynchets are rounded, irregularly spaced and average 0.5m high.

(Centred ST 881089) Field systems from air photographs 1949. <1>

An area, centred ST 878090, contains fairly pronounced lynchets following the contours. These lynchets are rounded, irregularly spaced and average 0.5m high. An area, centred ST 884088, contains fragmentary lynchets. At ST 88650880 a well preserved field of the Iron Age/Romano British type has banks 6.0m wide and 0.3m high. To the south and west of Camp Down most traces of the field system have been obliterated by modern cultivation, except where the present hedges have utilized lynchets to form modern boundaries. <2>

Faint traces of 'Celtic' fields are discernible on Camp Down (around ST 881089), but they have been much altered by strip ploughing and later cultivation. <3>

Contour and up-and-down strip lynchets, now largely ploughed down, cover a large area around ST 880083. In 1838 they were in Nutford Field. <4>

<1> Atkinson, R J C, 1949, spec 6 inch (RJCA 1.3.49) (Map). SWX1583.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 08-DEC-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1973, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1972, 119 (Serial). SDO72.

<4> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 2159-61 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17700.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205414 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 24 2022 12:00PM