Monument record MDO6604 - Strip lynchets south of Causeway Farm, Weymouth

The tread of a strip lynchet, 8yds wide, can be seen from SY 66088133 to SY 66248113, adjacent to 8 acres of disturbed strip lynchets (now destroyed). <2>

The strip lynchet visible on air photograph <2.1> from SY 66078193 to SY 66118184 was under crops at the time of visit. The feature visible on air photograph from SY 66088133 to SY 66248113 is a hollow-way, but in the same field a lynchet 2.0m. high runs north-south from SY 66248112 to SY 66258130, the only one now visible. <3>

A medieval strip field system is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs in the field to the south of Causeway Farm. The features were digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. <1> <2.1>

<1> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4459-60 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11977.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(393) STRIP LYNCHETS, formerly in Radipole parish, remain as follows: one tread, 22 yds. wide, W. of Corfe Hill Farm (66078193 to 66138187); another, 8 yds. wide, S. of Causeway Farm (66088133 to 66248113) and adjacent to 8 acres of disturbed strip lynchets, now destroyed, shown by air photographs to run up and down slopes of about 9°. (R.A.F V.A.P. CPE/UK 1821: 4460.)’

<2.1> Royal Air Force, RAF/CPE/UK/1821 4460 (Aerial Photograph). SWX2297.

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 05-JUN-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452746 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 23 2024 12:54PM