Monument record MDO828 - Cultivation remains, Cheselbourne

Four contour strip lynchets immediately north west of the church lie outside the area of the open fields. The lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery and were digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project, they are considered likely to be of medieval date.

SY 761996. Four contour strip lynchets lie immediately NW of Cheselbourne Church. <1-2>

Reduced by ploughing to inconspicuous rounded scarps. <3>

The lynchets are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery and were digitally recorded during the Dorset Upper Cern and Piddle AIM Project, they are considered likely to be of medieval date <6-7>.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 77 (Monograph). SDO146.

'(20) Cultivation remains. The open fields of the parish were not finally enclosed until 1845 (Enclosure Award, D.C.R.O.) but it is clear from the Tithe Map of 1844 that the final arrangement of seven separate open fields, all W. and N.W. of the village, was only the last stage in a long process of enclosure and reorganisation. The only remains, four contour strip lynchets immediately N.W. of the church (761996), lie outside the area of the open fields'.

<2> Royal Air Force, 11-NOV-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 2362-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20002.

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 20-OCT-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454631 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<5> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 FS 2109 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20856.

<6> Environment Agency, 15-DEC-2023, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO20691.

Record last edited

Aug 8 2024 6:42PM