Monument record MDO2841 - Eggardon Hill Farm: medieval strip lynchets

(Area centred at: SY 55869451) A series of pronounced Md. strip lynchets on the N.W. and S.E. slopes of a narrow combe. The lynchets are from 0.5 to 3.5m. high, and the terraces 5.0m. to 10.0m. wide. The area is grass covered, and partly visible on AP RAF/CPE/UK/2431/4151. <2>

A system of parallel strip lynchets of probable medieval origin lie to either side of a narrow combe to the east of Eggerton Hill Farm. The features are visible as earthworks on aerial photograph <3>.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 100 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(8) Lynchets, on a N.W. slope ¼ m. N.W. of the church, form a series of four main terraces extending for about 240 yards.'

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 23-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 4151-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11074.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450965 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 2 2023 5:09PM