Monument record MDO6126 - Strip lynchets, Sixpenny Handley

Strip lynchets visible as slight earthworks near the medieval settlement of Minchington, and interpreted as the remains of a field system associated with the village.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1985, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1984, 123 (Serial). SDO84.

‘An area of strip lynchets has been identified in arable and pasture on the south side of the Gussage Valley, but further towards its head. These remains lie south and south-east of the deserted settlement of Minchington on the opposite side of the valley (ST 963148, RCHM, Dorset Vol. V East (1975), p. 68, mon. 17). Traces of two ploughed-out lynchets lie in arable to the west, parallel with, and to either side of, the foot-path on the OS 1:25,000 map (ST 963145). These may descend the hillside into woodland to the east. Further signs of two or three slight lynchets are visible in pasture south of the woodland, towards Lower Farm (ST 967145).’

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