Monument record MDO1856 - Medieval lynchets, Owermoigne

An area of strip lynchets, the remains of a medieval open field system. Now rather fragmentary. The strip lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s on Moigns Down, Owermoigne.

Lynchets up to a maximum height of 1.0m: ill-defined and poorly preserved. Area outlined on 1:10560 Record Sheet. <4>

The strip lynchets described in <1> are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of the 1940s on Moigns Down, Owermoigne. The lynchets are formed of curvilinear banks and ditches visible over an area measuring approximately 240 m by 230 m, following the contour lines. <2-3> These features were digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 188 (Monograph). SDO148.

'(20) Strip Lynchets (760836), of contour type, are fragmentary (R.A.F. V.A.P. CPE/UK 1821: 4440).'

<2> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3275-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13868.

<3> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3341-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13869.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 08-SEP-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454255 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 21 2023 10:19AM