Monument record MDO48397 - Medieval lynchets, Cerne Abbas

A series of sinuous and closely set narrow banked lynchets on the lower south side of Giants Hill, Cerne Abbas, are visible as earthworks on Environment Agency lidar imagery. The features are probably lynchets of medieval origin, although they do run up to and into a later prehistoric field system of probable Iron Age to Roman date on their northtwest side. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

A series of sinuous and closely set narrow banked lynchets on the lower south side of Giants Hill, Cerne Abbas, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery [1, 2]. The features are probably lynchets of medieval origin, although they do run up to and into a later prehistoric field system of probable Iron Age to Roman date on their northwest side. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FS 2375 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20736.

<2> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

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Aug 13 2024 2:45PM