Monument record MDO6147 - Strip lynchets, Mapperton, Sturminster Marshall

Shallow strip lynchets of contour type cover about 4 acres south of Mapperton and end above the settlement in a scarp about two feet high. Earthworks to the east of Mapperton are visible on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

SY 908984. Strip lynchets, of contour type, cover about 4 acres south of Mapperton and end above the settlement
remains (SY 99 NW 58) in a scarp about 2 ft. high. The treads slope, and risers are only some 9 inches high. An estate map of 1770 by I. Taylor shows the area as 'Great Meadow' with two strip plots enclosed north of the strip lynchets. <1>

Shallow strip lynchets of contour type cover about 4 acres south of Mapperton and end above the settlement in a scarp about 2ft high. Earthworks to the east of Mapperton are visible on 1940s aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery and were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project <2-3>.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 290 (Monograph). SDO148.

'(45) Strip lynchets (908984), of contour type, cover about 4 acres S. of Mapperton and end above the settlement remains in a scarp about 2 ft. high. The treads slope, and risers are only some 9 ins. High. An estate map of 1770 by I. Taylor (in D.C.R.O.) shows the area as 'Great Meadow' with two strip plots enclosed N. of the strip lynchets (R.A.F. V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934:5130)'.

<1.1> Royal Air Force, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 5130 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20111.

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 V 5131 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19962.

<3> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457366 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

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Sep 8 2023 12:45PM