More information : A strip map of South Cadbury c 1830 indicates that
lynchets were part of the open field strips of the parish, and
strip-lynchets exist south of Cadbury Castle at ST 627248, and on
Littleton Hill at ST 638249. (See also ST 62 NW 17). (1)
The strip lynchets centred at ST 6275 2485, in the fields adjacent to the lower slopes of the southern defences of Cadbury Castle, were recorded during the re-survey of the monument by RCHME. They were still under cultivation as individual parcels of land at the beginning of the 19th century (2) and cultivation continued intermittently until the early 20th century (3,4). Part of a rectangular enclosure, shown as a meadow on the tithe map, was recorded immediately to the N of Henshall Brook (5). Small rectangular earthworks, which cut into the lower lynchets, mark the site of rifle butts constructed during the 2nd World War (4). The strip lynchets in the long narrow field to the W are well preserved and form an impressive series of between 4 and 6 terraces, which rise from Henshall Brook to the base of the hillfort's defences. To the E, the strip lynchets have been damaged by recent ploughing. (6) |