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Lynchets 850m west of Ridgeway Farm is a scheduled ancient monument comprising a series of agricultural terraces located in Wiltshire. The lynchets represent evidence of medieval or later strip cultivation, formed by repeated ploughing along hillsides which caused soil accumulation to create distinctive stepped earthworks. The terraces are characteristic of the open field farming systems practised across much of southern England during the medieval period and potentially into the early post-medieval era. The survival of such earthworks provides important archaeological evidence for understanding historical land management practices and settlement patterns in the Wiltshire landscape.
Lynchets 850m west of Ridgeway Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016327. View the official record →
Lynchets 850m west of Ridgeway Farm is a scheduled ancient monument comprising a series of agricultural terraces located in Wiltshire.
Lynchets 850m west of Ridgeway Farm is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1016327.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 850m WNW of Dudmore Lodge (7 km), Village cross (7.1 km), Banjo enclosure 480m south west of Cheldene (7.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Lynchets 850m west of Ridgeway Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Lynchets 850m west of Ridgeway Farm stands on Grey Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is chalk.