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Public Inquiry Closing Statement (3958 words) |
 | 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. |
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SCM Volume 8 - 1 (1955 words) |
| 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. |
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