Monument record MDO38337 - Medieval strip lynchets, Quarry Hill, Chideock

The remains of a medieval strip field system are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery on the southern and southwest end of Quarry Hill. They form part of a wider system of lynchets that surround the hill and are described in records MDO901 and MDO38338-9. The features were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

SY 434 929. Strip lynchets at the South end of Quarry Hill. Four lynchets extend some 500 yards in length. <1>

The remains of a medieval strip field system are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs <2> and lidar imagery <3> on the southern and southwest end of Quarry Hill. Fragments of three lynchets are visible at SY 3432 9300, running roughly north-south for 172m. Others run along the southern edge for up to 430m, they have been partially fossilized in the modern field boundaries. The features were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP, they form part of a wider system of lynchets that surround the hill and are described in records MDO38337-9.

<1> Unpublished revision RCHME Dorset I (West) Undated (Chideock File) (Unpublished document). SWX1571.

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RP 3170-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14701.

<3> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DSM, sy4393_dtm_1m.asc and sy4392_dtm_1m.asc (Aerial Photograph). SDO13147.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 866927 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 16 2023 2:03PM