Monument record MDO167 - Medieval strip lynchets on White Sheet Hill, Beaminster

Medieval strip lynchets on White Sheet Hill, Beaminster. They form part of a wider system of medieval strip fields and were digitally plotted from lidar imagery and aerial photographs during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

Lynchets on the W and SE slopes of White Sheet Hill and extending some distance to the east, form a number of groups of which those on White Sheet Hill are the best defined. <1> Six areas of medieval type strip lynchets centred ST 4902, all under grass, and visible on air photographs. … E. ST 49990252 Weak, parallel strip lynchets running against the contours. <2> A series of medieval strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs on the eastern slopes of White Sheet Hill, to the east of Lake House Farm <3>. They form part of a wider system of medieval strip fields and were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

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Nov 14 2022 4:06PM