Monument record MDO6607 - Cultivation remains, Weymouth

Earthwork remains of Iron Age and Romano-British field system overlain by medieval strip lynchets. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Earthwork remains of Iron Age and Romano-British field system overlain by Medieval strip lynchets. Visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs {1,2}. The site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Strip lynchets of up and down type covered 12 acres partly over "Celtic" fields about SY 656856 and a further 12 acres at SY 657854, now almost destroyed. <3>

Two or three genlee contour scarps are visible in the field centred at SY 656855; they may be much ploughed down lynchets. No "up and down" lychets are now visible, there or at SY 657854. <4>

<1> 06-APR-2002, PGA SY6585 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11825.

<2> 2006, LIDAR D0059935 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11824.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 374 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘(394) STRIP LYNCHETS, formerly in Upwey parish, remain in three areas. … (c) Strip lynchets of up-and-down type covered 12 acres partly over ‘Celtic’ fields about 656856, and a further 12 acres at 657854 are almost destroyed; three groups lie S. of (b), W. and E. of South Field on the Tithe Map.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 21-APR-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452208 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 23 2024 3:39PM