Monument record MDO3358 - Strip lynchets, Winterbourne Steepleton

Medieval strip lynchets and cultivation marks are recorded as extant earthworks by the RCHM. They are also visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs

A series of strip lynchets crossed obliquely by a sunken trackway. (Centred at SY 627899). (1) Three east to west lynchets averaging 0.7m high are visible in a pasture field and in the small conifer copse and paddock to the east. The trackway cuts through the lynchets, which are of Medieval type. (2) SY 627900. Two (three shown on plan) strip lynchets facing south are situated on North Hill. Their west ends have been cut into and crossed by narrow rig, which also lies below them. A sunken track cutting diagonally across them is shown on the Tithe Map. (3) Centred SY 62758995. Four strip lynchets (3 on the lower slopes, 1 on the crest of the ridge). They remain as described by RCHM (3), up to 1.0m. high in permanent pasture (4) Three east to west strip lynchets averaging 0.7m high are visible in a pasture field on North Hill, north of the village Winterborne Steepleton. Their west ends have been cut into and crossed by narrow ridge and furrow cultivation marks, which also lies below them. A sunken track cuttiing diagonally across them to the east is shown on the Tithe Map {3}. These lynchets and cultivation marks are also visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs {5} and were digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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Apr 24 2023 1:01PM