Monument record MDO1717 - Lynchets on Dogbury Hill, Minterne Magna

A medieval field system consisting of a series of field lynchets on Dogbury Hill in Minterne Park consisting of parallel but irregularly spaced earthwork terraces from 1 to 2 metres high. In the west part of the area the earthworks were set in a orthwest-southeast direction, but in the east the lynchets run from north-north-west to south-south-east and from north to south.

Centred at ST 66020485 Grass covered strip lynchets from 1.0m to 2.0m high, parallel, but irregularly spaced. In the west part of the area these are set in a NW-SE direction, but in the east part the lynchets run from NNW-SSE and from north to south. <2> Two systems of strip lynchets occur between the 600ft and 750ft contours on the gentle SW slope of Dogbury Hill. At ST 66080478 three strips occupy 2.0 hectars, each terrace about 18.0m wide and separated by a lynchet 1.0m high. There is a distinct western bias to the slope and consequently the strips run in a NNE to SSW direction. They are enclosed on the W and S by a second system of lynchets, parallel and set in a NW to SE direction but irregularly spaced. The strips vary from 15.0m to 30.0m in width with separating lynchets up to 1.5m high. They are much spread by ploughing. A further 2.0 hectares of close-set lynchets to the N, at ST 66000499, visible on APs (a), have been completely erased by recent ploughing. <4>

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Nov 25 2021 5:29PM