Monument record MDO470 - Medieval strip lynchets on Watton Hill, Bradpole

Traces of medieval strip lynchets running round the north and southeast sides of Watton Hill. The lynchets are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and aerial photohraphs and were digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP project.

[SY 4793] Lynchets, on the SE side of WATTON HILL, consist of traces only of former terraces. <2>

Centred at: SY 47159370. Pronounced approximately parallel terracing, following the contour on a steep hillside. The area was under young trees and was not closely investigated. The boundary of the area was delineated from a distance. <3>

At the North end of Watton Hill, 2 strip lynchets with 50 foot treads extend 220 yards towards the western group of lynchets (noted by Auth 2). <4>

The two lynchets are visible as earthworks on lidar imagery and were digtially plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP project. <5-7>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 37 (Monograph). SDO97.

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 12-JUL-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F3 JR 21-SEP-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Unpublished revision RCHME Dorset I (West) Undated (Bradpole file) (Unpublished document). SDO19078.

<5> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 4164-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14120.

<6> Royal Air Force, 27-APR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2621 4054-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14121.

<7> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DTM, sy4793ne_dtm_50cm.asc and sy4794se_dtm_50cm.asc (Aerial Photograph). SDO13148.

<8> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/088 RCHME Inventory: Dorset I (West) and Revision (Unpublished document). SDO17367.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450056 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 20 2022 7:01PM