Monument record MDO4804 - Strip Lynchets, Stourpaine

To the S of Hod Hill (ST 853104-ST 857103) are the ploughed-out remains of medieval strip lynchets of contour-type. (See plan with ST 81 SE 57). <1-2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 262-263 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(10) CULTIVATION REMAINS. … Contour strip lynchets of the open fields of Stourpaine, finally enclosed in 1856 (map in D.C.R.O.), remain in a number of places. To the S. of Hod Hill (853104–857103) are the ploughed out remains of contour strip lynchets; some of these had already been enclosed by 1841 (Tithe Map) but others remained in Walls Linch Furlong. Some 500 yds. to the S. are two partly lynchetted ridges; they were formerly headlands, 30 yds. wide and 2 ft. high, running E.-W. along the slope, roughly parallel and about 350 yds. apart. The headlands lay between three furlongs of strip fields, no longer visible but shown on the Tithe Map as Farmacre, Middle and Lower Furlongs.’

<2> Royal Air Force, 27-04-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2038 3231-2, 3232 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16338.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206191 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Mar 3 2022 2:42PM