Monument record MDO2107 - Strip lynchets on Corton Hill, Portesham

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Summary

Medieval strip field system on Corton Hill, visible as earthwork and cropmarked lynchets on aerial photgraphs

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Medieval strip field system on Corton Hill, visible as earthwork and cropmarked lynchets on aerial photgraphs {1-3}. They were digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project. The lynchets are visible as earthworks on an oblique aerial photograph taken by Francesca Radcliffe on 20 September 1991. <4>

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  • <1> Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 17-1-1947. RAF/CPE/UK/1934 1065-7.
  • <2> Aerial Photograph: 12-5-2002. PGA SY6385.
  • <3> Aerial Photograph: 29-7-1997. DCC 2297 0259.
  • <4> Aerial Photograph: Radcliffe, F M. Oblique aerial photographs. FR 73/30.

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Location

Grid reference Centred SY 6330 8554 (650m by 315m) (22 map features)
Map sheet SY68NW
Civil Parish Portesham; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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  • None recorded

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  • Legacy UID: Dorset Sites and Monuments Record: 1 090 099

Record last edited

Apr 15 2016 5:25PM

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