Monument record MDO6605 - Cultivation remains on Bayard Hill, Upwey, Weymouth

(Centred SY 662853) Field system. <2>

At 'A' (centred SY 66158535) are three badly shaped approximately parallel strip lynchets on the steep hillside.
At 'B' (centred SY 66358523) are two strong strip lynchets. All are under grass. <3>

SY 663853. Strip lynchets, of contour-type and fragmentary remains, extend over 15 acres east of Upway church and are arranged in three-end-on furlongs up to 160 yards long. <4>

These prominent strip lynchets, on a west-facing slope, are as described by RCHM. <4>. <5>

Earthwork remains of a medieval field system with strip lynchets. Visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <1> and digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3290-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11827.

<2> Atkinson, R J C, 1949, Annotated Record Map Rec. 6 (R J C Atkinson 1 3 49) (Map). SWX2397.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 31-JUL-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘(394) STRIP LYNCHETS, formerly in Upwey parish, remain in three areas. (a) Strips (663853), of contour type and fragmentary, extend over 15 acres E. of Upwey Church, arranged in three end-on furlongs up to 160 yds. long. …’

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 21-APR-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452020 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 23 2024 3:39PM