Monument record MDO4902 - Field System, Tarrant Gunville

Centred ST 919 135: Indistinct traces of contour strip lynchets north west of Gunville at ST 920133. More extensive traces of contour strip lynchets on the south of Stubhampton at ST 917 136 have recently been ploughed down. <1-2>

Due to ploughing in the areas noted by the RCHM <1> the only visible trace of lynchets are very slight undulations along the valley side. Poorly defined on OS air photographs. <3>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 95 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(29) CULTIVATION REMAINS. Nothing is known of the mediaeval fields of Stubhampton or Gunville. Indistinct traces of contour strip lynchets N.W. of Gunville (920133) probably represent the fields of that settlement. More extensive traces of contour strip lynchets on the S.W. of Stubhampton (917136) have recently been ploughed down. 'Celtic' fields on Stubhampton Down (see p.120, Group (76)) were reploughed to form strip cultivation in mediaeval times, or perhaps later'.

<2> Royal Air Force, RAF/CPE/UK/2038 3090-29 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19172.

<3> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F1 GB 27-JAN-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<3.1> Ordnance Survey, OS 75/371 051-052 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19173.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210251 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 6 2023 4:06PM