What does lynchet mean?
Lynchet means (archaeology) A bank of earth that slowly builds up on the lower slope of a ploughed field; a feature of ancient field systems..
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(archaeology) A bank of earth that slowly builds up on the lower slope of a ploughed field; a feature of ancient field systems..
A stretch of a hundred odd acres, in one patch, on the highest ground of the farm, rising above stony lanchets or lynchets - the outcrop of siliceous veins in the chalk formation.
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Lynchet means (archaeology) A bank of earth that slowly builds up on the lower slope of a ploughed field; a feature of ancient field systems..
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A stretch of a hundred odd acres, in one patch, on the highest ground of the farm, rising above stony lanchets or lynchets - the outcrop of siliceous veins in the chalk formation.
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