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	Public Inquiry Closing Statement
		Dr Gardiner claimed that agricultural lynchets form with slopes as little as 2 to 3%, yet he has failed to convince me that the top field at Wilting was formed by this method, because there was not enough evidence to support this proposal.
		Wessex have been held up to us as independent experts, yet when they fail to confirm the lynchet to be such a construction, and suggest that earthmoving is involved, Dr Gardiner does an about face and seeks to deny the opinion of the experts he has otherwise promoted as being correct in all matters.
		Firstly there was not enough soil for the lynchet to form in the first place (at this depth across the whole field), and secondly there is not enough slope for them to form at the top of this hill.
	www.secretsofthenormaninvasion.com /corresp/summary2.html (3958 words)

	SCM Volume 8 - 1
		The height of the lynchet was also increased by the digging or ploughing away of soil at its base—if there happened to be a cultivated area on its downhill side.
		But, that some of the lynchets are much earlier than the periods of the pottery is borne in upon us very forcibly when we examine the evidence yielded by excavation of the lynchet edges.
		Now the great interest of lynchet 3, Plan 1 ("B," Plan 2), is that its somewhat semicircular curve was the result of the ancient cultivators having to make this detour from a straight line in order to avoid a curved area at the base of their field edge.
	www.dewponds.com /scm_vol_08_1.htm (1955 words)

	Somme : Texts : Personal Accounts : Old Front Line
		It is said, that these remblais or lynchets, which may be seen in English chalk countries, as in the Dunstable Downs, in the Chiltern Hills, and in many parts of Berkshire and Wiltshire, are made in each instance, in a short time, by the plowing away from the top and bottom of any difficult slope.
		From this lynchet, looking down the valley into the Y Ravine, the enemy position is saddle-shaped, low in the middle, where the Y Ravine narrows, and rising to right and left to a good height.
		The enemy batteries were generally placed behind banks or lynchets which gave good natural cover; but in many places he mounted guns in strong permanent emplacements, built up of timber balks, within a couple of miles (at Fricourt within a quarter of a mile) of his front line.
	www.patachon.com /itp/somme/texts/masefield_1917.html (20064 words)

	Wessex Report Section 2.
		This trench is of equal importance to Trench A because it confirms the existence of the Iron Age fort.
		If it were a lynchet there would be evidence of a structure to hold back the soil.
		I do not think it is material to the case since clearly this is not a lynchet and exhibits the hallmarks of a defense.
	www.secretsofthenormaninvasion.com /corresp/wessex2.htm (1598 words)

	SCM Volume 8 - 2
		The whole of its southern edge is bordered by a lynchet scarp, and one lynchet runs up to, and another nearly up to, this edge, thus showing that the road is older than, and served as a boundary for, the ancient cultivated areas.
		The break in the lynchet at "E," plan 2, is modern, the levelling having been done in connection with a trainers' gallop that runs across it.
		This is doubtless in part due to lynchet cultivation which extended up to the road and gave the latter scarped edges.
	dewponds.com /scm_vol_08_2.htm (1784 words)

	PARABOW and the Yorkshire Vikings
		Some archaeologists suggest that lynchets are not created immediately when cultivation starts but are rather the result of mismanagement to the point where soil creep on slopes begins and stone barriers had to be placed to hold / catch this soil.
		The survival on lynchets in Mid-Wensleydale is an indication that modern, intensive agriculture never quite got to some parts, the large lynchet systems of lower lying areas and further south in England have been destroyed by rigorous cultivation and a later overlay of field systems.
		These strips were called ‘reins’ and were usually a furlong in length and wide enough for a team of four oxen, yoked 2 by 2.The lynchets were the strips on the steeper ground and might also have been considered to be inferior to the reins and thus rotated between families.
	www.grampus.co.uk /parabow/projects/planning/uk/Parabolton.htm (511 words)

	FARTHING DOWN, Coulsdon, Surrey. Report on Magnetic Susceptibility survey, January 1995
		A gouge auger was used at each station point to recover samples of soil directly into 10cc plastic containers at 0.1m vertical intervals from the modern ground surface until the underlying chalk substrate was encountered.
		The results of the magnetic measurements are given in Table 1 and Table 2 for the tumulus and the lynchet respectively and a graphical representation of this data is given in Figure 2A and 2B; in both cases the chalk substrate was assumed to represent a horizontal datum.
		Indeed, the results of the auger survey suggest that the topography of both the tumulus and lynchet features examined during this study are formed by a central accumulation of chalk and/or flint, opposed to a lens of magnetically enhanced soil.
	www.eng-h.gov.uk /reports/farthing_down95 (1747 words)

	Archaeology: Landscape change from the Late Iron Age to Medieval Devon
		Therefore the lynchet effect was probably created as the plough soil levelling itself out as it settled up against a bank along the line indicated by boundary B (see plan 1).
		Today this curving backward S lynchet is stone-faced and sets the western limit for a grouping of arable fields.
		A further bank was built along the lines of the old Lynchet but this time it stopped by abutting the boundary bank of A. This created an area of small enclosures which all retained ‘Calf’ type fieldnames and was recorded as such in the 19th century Tithe Apportionments (see plan 2).
	www.projects.ex.ac.uk /devonclp/Bywood_1.htm (2077 words)

	Field Unit 2004 Archive
		A large circular feature is the known location of a possible road surface destined at one time to be the boundary of a Jewish cemetery.
		A linear feature running across the field from north/west to south/east is probably a lynchet and earlier field boundary.
		In April and May of 2004 the BHAS geophysics team, under the leadership of Norman Phippard and David Staveley, conducted a resistivity survey of a significant part of the cemetery extension area.
	www.brightonarch.org.uk /13_5.htm (1609 words)

	Coldrum - A brief history (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Coldrum Stones are sited on a small lynchet that runs, down from the Pilgrims Way, in the shadow of the North Downs, Kent.
		The lynchet that Coldrum sits is much older than the monument itself.
		Coldrum sits at a slight angle into the lynchet and standing within the chamber or on top of the mound you are confounded with a fantastic view across the flat Medway Valley, onto the rising North Downs, which carry on running south down to Dover.
	tdnet.user.openhosting.com /en/sacredsites/coldrum/history.html (1138 words)

	ArchaeoPhysica Ltd on the WWW
		Along the bottom of the model is a long curving lynchet, probably of medieval date, at the foot of which ridge and furrow cultivation is visible.
		Note that none survives above the lynchet which implies that it has either been ploughed out or might simply have become buried as soil accumulated uphill of the boundary.
		At the top of the image there is the remains of an avenue of trees leading to the former gate lodge of a large estate but the DTM was able to show that this crossed the line of a lane heading towards the Northeast from below the existing churchyard.
	www.archaeophysica.co.uk /Projects/llr.html (281 words)

	portland customs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dividing these up through Gavelkind was a headache, but in the advent of extensive stone quarrying there was a further problem.
		Families had to cooperate in an agreement that their land should be given over to a 'communal' quarry.
		In the advent of a particularly stubborn family, the individual strip of Lynchet remained unquarried, so becoming a spar of rock standing tall in the midst of the quarry.
	www.megspace.com /arts/sitodd/portcust.htm (782 words)

	Defra UK; ERDP - Farm Environment Plan Handbook
		Features may date from a single period in time but consist of several elements, or may be sites of many time periods overlaying each other.
		Historic field systems which comprise a cohesive system of boundaries, such as lynchets or other historic cultivation boundary features may also be grouped under this feature type.
		Hedges, ditches, walls and banks which no longer function as effective boundaries but are traceable due to remnant features such as trees, scrub, fallen stone walling, earth banks and ridges and partially in-filled ditches.
	www.defra.gov.uk /erdp/schemes/hls/fep-handbook/chapter4-historic.htm (1956 words)

	Coldrum - A brief history \| The Druid Network
		The Coldrum Stones are sited on a small lynchet that runs, down from the Pilgrims Way, in the shadow of the North Downs, Kent.
		The lynchet that Coldrum sits is much older than the monument itself.
		Coldrum sits at a slight angle into the lynchet and standing within the chamber or on top of the mound you are confounded with a fantastic view across the flat Medway Valley, onto the rising North Downs, which carry on running south down to Dover.
	druidnetwork.org /en/sacredsites/coldrum/history.html (1138 words)

	Dig This - Fun Facts, Questions, Answers, Information
		The word cartouche is French and comes from Napoleon's soldiers who thought the frequently repeated design was like a gun carriage.
		A lynchet is a bank of earth which builds up over a very long time at the end of a sloping, ploughed field.
		Opinions differ as to whether it was the result of soil erosion or to prevent soil erosion.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/Dig-This-223221.html (391 words)

	Det danske Fredsakademis kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 26. oktober 2006 / Time Line October 26, ...
		Kirker bliver beskudt og bombet og kristne bliver kidnappet og lynchet, oplyser organisationen Åbne Døre.
		I tillæg til den blodige kamp imellem sunni- og shiamuslimer i Irak er der sket en stigning i voldshandlinger, der er rettet mod kristne irakere.
		De sidste uger er flere kirker er blevet beskudt og bombet og en række kristne er blevet lynchet og kidnappet.
	www.fredsakademiet.dk /tid/2000/2006/oktober06/okt0626.htm (468 words)

	pr3183
		The funding will enable stock fencing for cattle to be erected along the main downland area, coupled with new access gates and a wheelchair accessible path.
		As part of a continuing downland restoration programme scrub will also be removed from the medieval lynchet banks and from areas of grassland to maintain the extensive views.
		All of the surviving downland will be grazed while the main woodland areas and lower lynchet banks will remain unfenced and open to walkers as at present.
	www.hants.gov.uk /press/2006/pr3183.html (420 words)

	Strip lynchets - Google Earth Explorer
		A lynchet is a bank of earth that builds up on the downslope of a field ploughed for a long period of time.
		The disturbed soil slips down the hillside to create a positive lynchet whilst the area reduced in level becomes a negative lynchet.
		They are also referred to as strip lynchets.
	explorer.altopix.com /map/7622w1/1/2/Strip_lynchets.htm?order=date (93 words)

	CORNISH HEDGES - Occasional Papers - Comments on the Defra "Hedgerow Survey" Handbook
		Sources of grant aid are likely to require more comprehensive, comparable and reliable evidence that this Handbook's systems can supply.
		In fact the illustration on p.26 purporting to be a lynchet is a stone-faced bank.
		Obvious failures to follow routine spell-checking procedure, or to read proofs carefully (although a particularly embarassing misprint in the consultative paper (p.47) has been corrected) do nothing to increase respect for the production, nor does the mis-spelling throughout of well-known words such as lynchet or co-operation.
	www.cornishhedges.com /defrahndbook.html (4614 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Car fleeing police leaves pedestrian critical
		A 39-year-old pedestrian is critically injured after being hit by a car which police were trying to stop in Brighton.
		Sussex Police said at the time of the collision plain clothes police officers were attempting to stop and speak to the occupants of the Vauxhall car.
		Inspector Natalie Carron said: "We are appealing to anyone who may have seen or heard anything in Lynchet Close during the early hours of the morning or who may have information regarding this incident to contact Sussex Police."
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/2802813.stm (201 words)

	Villages History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The most westerly cross-route flanks the cairn field of Bryniau Bugeilydd, a group of low stone and turf covered sepulchral mounds.
		Within the same area there are numerous unenclosed and enclosed hut groups of round houses in association with lynchet boundaries and field systems which may be pre-Iron Age.
		The road through Bwlch y Ddeufaen was in use in Roman times, and was still a through route until the late eighteenth century.
	www.penmaenmawr.com /historical_penmaenmawr.htm (1542 words)

	A History of the English Landscape and Countryside - Part 2 - Countrylovers.co.uk
		Much of pre-Roman Britain was composed of an 'open field' system of agriculture; each field being unenclosed and subdivided among farmers, rather than being cultivated in 'common'.
		Fields were often square in shape, and in upland areas the boundaries sometimes became, or were, banked up with earth [a lynchet enclosure].
		When the Romans appeared so, too, did new forms of farmstead: - the almost self-sufficient villa type [villa being the latin word for a country-house or farm], and holdings awarded to loyal army veterans who stuck it out in Britain's rainy landscape.
	www.countrylovers.co.uk /places/histlan2.htm (585 words)

	Prehistoric Farming
		The outer field boundaries were either wattle fencing or live hedges.
		Where the cultivated area extended up the hillsides,over a period of time the soil in each field slipped down the slope, and at the lower boundary it created a terrace called a lynchet bank.
		Further out from the farm, the surrounding hills and open land was used to graze a variety of animals.
	www.gallica.co.uk /celts/farming.htm (886 words)

	Wharram Percy
		We do not know whether houses already existed in small groups and the plan was used to guide further development, or whether the plan was devised at an early stage before any significant ânucleationâ.
		It is thought likely that the planning took place in the tenth century, though there is some evidence, especially from the existence of a long âlynchetâ bank running through the western plots, that it did not happen until the twelfth century.
		Good views of the layout of Wharram Percy have come from aerial photographs such as the one on the left (where the Church appears near the top and the northern manor house at the bottom).
	www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk /page57.html (453 words)

	biab online: record result (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Excavation of a sheep pond and adjacent lynchet, Eastbourne, Sussex
		Pottery from the lynchet showed it to have been in use from the late-first century to eleventh centuries AD.
		Evidence for later activity immediately predated the pond floor, which was in use from the early-nineteenth century.
	www.biab.ac.uk /online/results1.asp?ItemID=20722 (90 words)

	p11
		The fields around Linton were used for growing crops in Medieval times.
		The terraces that can be seen here are called 'Lynchets'.
		Each lynchet was one of the 'strips' belonging to one villager.
	www.ngfl.ac.uk /Linsite/p11.HTM (60 words)

	Factsheet
		This is Coombe Rock which has been dated to around 10,000 B.C., and the chalk involutions, younger by about 1000 years, resulted from frost-heaving of the surface during the very last throes of the Ice Age.
		The dark looking soil above is of Post-Glacial age and the light brown chalky hillwash, although largely derived from soliflucted material and windblown silt, (brickearth or loess), was laid down in its present form in recent times and is probably associated with the formation of the lynchet above.
		As you walk northwards along the concrete road beyond Coombe Bottom, the river cliff-face gets higher and in it you can see frost-shattered chalk lying at the base of a considerable thickness of Post-Glacial hillwash.
	www.vic.org.uk /edu/subfs/lasticeage.htm (385 words)

	History of Sussex - Gazeteer Page 1
		N hoard of axes and pottery spoons; MBA barrow, cremation with collared urn, pigmy cup, faïence pendant etc. 304135; R bath-house 300139; R occupation 298141.
		and lynchets 900140; Celtic fields and bivallate track 918152 etc.; barrows (including bell type) 929145 etc.; barrows 935127 and 906118; PN Potcomb 918123.
		M or LBA hoard; R barrow on Celtic field lynchet 268084; R inhumations and cremations; S inhumation c.
	www.yeoldesussexpages.com /history/gazeteer.htm (2131 words)

	Terrace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Look up terrace in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
		Terrace (agriculture), a leveled section of a hilly cultivated area, designed to slow or prevent the rapid run-off of irrigation water (see also Lynchet).
		Terrace deposit or Stream terrace, sediment from an old stream, usually in an elevated aspect relative to the current streamway
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Terrace (269 words)

	Lynchet
		7 letters in word "lynchet": C E H L N T Y.
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