Monument record MDO570 - Lynchet, Buckland Newton

Remains of medieval cultivation in the form of strip lynchets. The features are visible as banked curvilinear earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.

Two areas of medieval strip lynchets, centred at ST 67330473, both grass covered. Visible on air photographs. <1>

'B' centred ST 67400465. Almost ploughed out lynchets on north-west facing pasture slopes, 0.5m maximum height, at varying distances apart and 70.0m to 100.0m in length. <2>

The features are visible as banked curvilinear earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Cerne and Piddle Valleys AIM project.Some of the lynchets are no longer visible on next Perspectives APGB imagery, being in an area of re-landscaping <5, 6, 7>

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3357-58 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17378.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, 19-SEP-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Phillips, A S, Various, Field Investigators Comments ASP, F1 ASP 15-JUL-77 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 198904 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<5> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3357-58 (Aerial Photograph). SDO17378.

<6> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<7> Next Perspectives, 21-AUG-2001, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (Aerial Photograph). SDO19893.

Record last edited

Aug 8 2024 2:45PM