Monument record MDO917 - Medieval field system, Chilfrome

An extensive medieval field system is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery to the north of Higher Drove, Chilfrome. The lynchets and field boundaries extend over an area of 70 hectares and were digitally poltted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project

[Centred at SY 57909928]. A grass covered area with a series of rather poorly defined Md. strip lynchets, parallel and regularly spaced but averaging 0.3m high. The lynchets are set in a WNW -ESE direction and are clearly visible on AP CPE/UK/1974/3386. <2>

An extensive medieval field system is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery to the north of Higher Drove, Chilfrome <3-4>. The lynchets and field boundaries extend over an area of 70 hectares and were digitally poltted during the Upper Frome and Sydling Valley AIM project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 98 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(6) Lynchets, 550 yards W.N.W. of the church, consist of eleven well-preserved terraces on a S. slope and extending for about 200 yards. The widths vary from 9 to 35 yards. There is a further single terrace about 200 yards to the W, and about 50 yards wide.'

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 10-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Royal Air Force, 11-NOV-1971, RAF/39/3829 V 0044-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16575.

<4> Environment Agency, XX-XXX-2019, LIDAR Environment Agency Composite LAST RETURN (Photograph). SDO16524.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document). SDO17367.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450592 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 23 2022 10:30AM