lynchets

Above the village to the north is the great rounded hill called Battlesbury Camp, crowned with the usual entrenchments and surrounded by the curious "lynchets" or remains of ancient terrace cultivation.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

Plain, its turfy surface is scored by terraces or "lynchets," telling the tale of the ancient ploughman's furrows on the slopes, and side by side with them lie the scars of what were once cattle enclosures, farms, and stockaded villages.

Stonehenge Today and Yesterday Frank Stevens 1896

The "lynchets," or flint slopes, which belted the escarpment at intervals of a dozen yards, took the less cautious ones unawares, and, losing their footing on the rubbly steep, they slid sharply downward, the lanterns rolling from their hands to the bottom, and there lying on their sides till the horn was scorched through.

Stories by English Authors: England Thomas Hardy 1884

"lynchets" or ancient cultivation terraces and there is no doubt that the neighbourhood has been the home of successive races from a most remote age.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

These areas include a number of strip lynchets in Loders parish - substantial terraces dating from the Middle Ages cut into the hillside to allow ploughing.

Plans to protect ancient terracing 2007

By extending the Loders and Uploders Conservation Area boundary to include the strip lynchets additional protection will be given to important landscape features that make a significant contribution to the character and setting of the historic settlement.

Archive 2007-03-01 2007

By extending the Loders and Uploders Conservation Area boundary to include the strip lynchets additional protection will be given to important landscape features that make a significant contribution to the character and setting of the historic settlement.

Plans to protect ancient terracing 2007

These areas include a number of strip lynchets in Loders parish - substantial terraces dating from the Middle Ages cut into the hillside to allow ploughing.

Archive 2007-03-01 2007

The slope is steep and the ground broken with shallow gullies and lynchets.

The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922

Many of our soldiers, on seeing them, have thought that they were cuttings made, with great labour, through the chalk, and that the remblais or lynchets were piled up and smoothed for some unknown purpose by primitive man.

The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922