Apr 3, 2025 · Mere Down is notable for the unusual shape of its steep-sided dry valleys into which are carved some of Wiltshire’s most impressive strip lynchets (the lines visible in the shot across each of the 4 headlands that make up the landscape here)

The possible Medieval and/or Post Medieval strip lynchets are visible as earthworks and cropmarks and have been mapped from aerial photographs. They are situated on an east facing slope overlooking Lake and Wilsford.

The monument includes the unploughed portion of a flight of medieval strip lynchets situated on the crest of the north west facing scarp of Picquet Hill. The hill is a promontory of Upper Chalk on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain above the village of Edington which commands impressive views across the clay vale of West Wiltshire.

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Jan 4, 2014 · The earthwork relic that has come to fascinate me the most is the medieval strip lynchet (from the Old English hlinc - 'ridges, terraces of sloping ground'). Lynchets manifest themselves as a series or flight of stepped terraces, normally visible on now turfed hill-sides.

Download View of Middle Hill and Scratchbury Hill. Panorama from Battlesbury Hill, with medieval strip lynchets on the edge of Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire, UK Stock Photo and explore similar images at Adobe Stock.

Mar 6, 1990 · Remains of this type are still clearly discernible in the field systems of "celtic field" and "combe lynchet" type which cover wide tracts of the Salisbury Plain Training Area. Details Strip lynchets with steps up to 4m high and moderate damage.

Strip lynchets have been created on the NE and SE slopes below the hillfort. A massive lynchet within the enclosure runs parallel to the inner rampart. In the S angle of the enclosure there are 3 round barrows (ST 84 NE 1) between the inner rampart and internal lynchet.

Oct 23, 2012 · Strip lynchets near Water Deane Bottom The signs of ancient attempts to make poor agricultural land more biddable to the farmer can be seen all over Salisbury Plain. An unintended benefit of the MoD's stewardship of much of the Plain is that many square miles of chalk grassland have never seen a mechanised plough - as here.

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