Monument record MDO7600 - Lynchets, Corfe Castle

<1> Barnes, I, and Cox, P W, 1988, Wytch Farm Oilfield Development, Infield Flowlines: Wytch Moor Launch Area, Archaeological Assessment, July 1988 (Unpublished document). SWX8172.

<2> Dodd, J, 1995, The Excavation of a medieval building at Ower Farm, Corfe Castle, and other archaeological observations during the construction of a new wellsite and pipeline at the Wytch Farm Oilfield, 1994 (Unpublished document). SWX8192.

'Site 5 - East of Wytch Moor. Monitoring of the topsoil stripping and excavation of the trench in this area (Fig. 1) was primarily undertaken to locate the return of the Fitzwoth Park Pale (See Site 4 above), but this area had also previously revealed evidence for a possible Medieval saltworking area. Further observations were also noted. Three broad, shallow features, filled with a homogeneous silty black sand were recorded. These were running in a north to south alignment and were bisected by the pipe trench. They corresponded with surface landscape features in the plot and can therefore be interpreted as lynchets. No finds were recovered from this area.'

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