Monument record MDO933 - Medieval field system, Compton Valence

Earthworks of an extensive medieval field system comprising parallel strip lynchets, strip field boundaries and ridge and furrow cultivation marks.

(Centred at SY 587936) Field system plotted from air photographs. <1>

Lynchets immediately S. of COWLEAZE WITHY bed and 1/4 mile N.W. of church, form seven terraces on a N. slope. <2>

In the extreme S. of the area, E. of Compton Barn, a number of spread and parallel field banks run in an SE-NW direction down the steep NW slope of the combe. Pronounced, parallel strip lynchets are S. of COWLEAZE WITHY BED. Elsewhere the lynchets are widely spaced and less well defined, but are probably all of Md. origin. See AP/CPE/UK/2431/4146. <3>

Earthworks of an extensive medieval field system comprising parallel strip lynchets, strip field boundaries and ridge and furrow cultivation marks, visible on aerial photographs to the north west of Compton Valence. <4-6>

<1> Atkinson, R J C, 1949, spec 6 inch (RJCA 1.3.49) (Map). SWX1583.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 105 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(6) Lynchets, immediately S. of Cowleaze Withy Bed and 1/4 m. N.W. of the church, form seven terraces on a N. slope'.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 21-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> 1972, DCC 212 095 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11093.

<5> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 4146-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11092.

<6> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 4243-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11091.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451000 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 17 2024 11:53AM