Monument record MDO958 - Lynchets, Corscombe

Lynchets of a N. slope extending for 1/2 mile, form 4 series roughly following the contours. <2>

Area centred [ST 507048]
A [50550511] B [50530500] C [50690487] D [50740475] E [50880482] F [50970495]
Contiguous areas of grass covered Medieval type strip lynchets in varying conditions.
A - Pronounced but badly mutilated.
B&C - Pronounced, parallel and regularly spaced.
D - Generally weak and irregular.
E - Varying from weak in the south to strong in the North.
F - Strong but irregular and badly mutilated by (…?)
See AP CPE/UK/2431/3382-3383. <1>

No change. <5>

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-Jan-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3382-83 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18235.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 108 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(22) LYNCHETS, on a N. slope extending for ½ m. to the W. of (21), form four series, roughly following the contours.’ RCHM W Dorset 1952 108

<3> Quinnell, N V, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments NVQ, 510 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Rigg, J, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comments JR, F1 JR 25-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<5> Corney, M, RCHME Field Investigator's Comments MCC, F2 MCC 18-FEB-87 (Index). SDO21473.

<6> Historic England, Historic England Archive, RCHM W Dorset 1952 108 (Index). SDO14738.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 195881 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 28 2025 1:34PM