A ridge or ledge formed along the downhill side of a plot by ploughing in ancient times.
（英国古时的）山地田埂，梯田崖
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The canteen seems to have been popular enough to warrant two phases of expansion, marked by surviving lynchets and wall foundations outlining the original and later buildings.
At Polesden in Surrey, a set of lynchets was found crossing parish boundaries, dissected by a late Anglo-Saxon hundredal boundary.
Further evidence of former agricultural practice in this category of earthwork includes lynchets and ridge and furrow, both resulting from ploughing.
The path follows the line of a lynchet to another footbridge, also spanning the disused railway.
They discovered a hollow way, a lynchet, banks and hollows that may indicate house sites, and one piece of pottery from the thirteenth or fourteenth century.
These were carved on a large earthfast boulder situated on a natural lynchet that follows the line of a periglacial feature.
The great height of some lynchets attests to the longevity of the fields and their intensity of use.
Whether these lynchets were constructed deliberately or came about as a result of ploughing is still not certain.
The lecture was on Celtic lynchets and aerial photographs provided for a penetrating analysis of the issue.
The lynchets are know locally as Chapel Rings, and are quite striking when seen from the village below.
This pressure for more agricultural land, led to the creation of lynchets, a form of terracing.
The vast space enclosed by the ramparts have allowed the occupants to farm the area, with lynchets spreading across the camp and encroaching on the flint mines to the west.
On the hillside above the valley evidence of ancient agricultural field systems and workings known as strip lynchets can be seen.
Trench 5 was back-filled and Trench 6 opened across a lynchet to the north of the enclosure.
On the valley floor to the south of the lynchets on Star Hill are further remains of strip-fields.
Eastman is an archaeologically rich site with medieval strip lynchet field systems created by ploughing.
If it were a lynchet there would be evidence of a structure to hold back the soil.
The site consists of a series of lynchets forming a prehistoric field system, with a later enclosure, possibly of Roman date.
The, albeit limited, colluvial or lynchet development above the lower hedge banks suggest that cultivation may have taken place over long periods, since the slopes involved are rarely steeper than 3 or 4 degrees.
Origin
Late 17th century: probably from dialect linch 'rising ground'; compare with links.