Monument record MDO4457 - Lynchets in Lower Lodge Plantation, Milton Abbas

Medieval cultivation remains in the form of earthwork terraces running along the contour. Reported as the well-preserved remains of sixteen lynchets arranged in three end-on furlongs with risers up to 15 feet high.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 199 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(25) CULTIVATION REMAINS. The date of the enclosure of the open fields of Milton Abbas is unknown. Remains of open fields occur in two places. On both sides of the Milborne Brook, S. of (13), are the fragmentary remains of contour strip lynchets; on the W. side of the brook the strips have been subsequently enclosed and reploughed. In Lower Lodge Plantation (799016-802013) are the well-preserved remains of sixteen contour strip lynchets; they are arranged in three end-on furlongs with risers up to 15 ft. high.’

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Oct 19 2016 3:55PM