Monument record MDO42828 - Probable medieval lynchets, Blastmoor Hill, Maiden Newton

Banked and scarped linear features are visible as earthworks on current Lidar imagery on the west side of Blastmoor Hill, Maiden Newton. The features are considered likely to be strip lynchets of probable medieval date. The features are situated on the western edge of an extensive Iron Age/Romano-British field system (MDO42829) at Hogg Cliff Bottom and it is possible that some of the features are outliers associated with that. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project.

Banked and scarped linear features are visible as earthworks on current Lidar imagery on the west side of Blastmoor Hill, Maiden Newton (1). The features comprise varying sections of curvilinear banks and scarps running broadly north to south along the hillslope. An additional linear bank on the same alignment is visible on Lidar imagery to the southwest, on the southwest side of the railway line. The features are considered likely to be strip lynchets of probable medieval date. They are situated on the western edge of an extensive Iron Age/Romano-British field system (MDO42829) at Hogg Cliff Bottom and it is possible that some of the features are alternatively outliers associated with that. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Upper Frome AIM project. Some of the features are also visible as cropmarks on current Google Earth imagery (2).

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Nov 11 2020 9:23AM