Monument record MDO1628 - Medieval strip lynchets, Mapperton

A series of parallel lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery on the northern slopes of Jack's Hill (2-3). They are considered to be of medieval origin and were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

('A' - SY 499986; 'B' - SY 495990) Strip lynchets plotted from air photographs. <1> Lynchets form groups of terraces on a south slope 1100 yards SSW of Mapperton church (A), and on a west slope 1200 yards SW of Mapperton church (B). <2> (A) Centred SY 49949870. An area of pronounced grass-covered medieval type strip lynchets, approximately parallel and in two series on a steep hill falling to the south. Partly tree-covered in the east. (B) Centred SY 49529899. Two sets of approximately parallel strip lynchets up to 3.0 metres high, set on a western slope and grass-covered. Boundaries to both areas were supplied by field survey, and they are unlikely ever to have extended further. <3> (B) Lynchets (NR) (Lynchets at 'A' are shown but not described on OS 6" 1968 and OS 1:10 000 1976). <4> A series of parallel lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery on the northern slopes of Jack's Hill <6-7>. They are considered to be of medieval origin and were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

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Dec 14 2022 7:15PM