They get to the lynchet, and he lays her down on the grass and does.

A bank under the later Iron Age defences is likely to be a lynchet or terrace derived from early ploughing of the hilltop.

A lynchet is a bank of earth that builds up on the downslope of a field ploughed over a long period of time.

Banks stood at the edge of the terrace, which he suspected was a lynchet, an ancient Anglian plowing strip leveled on a hillside.

The disturbed soil slips down the hillside to create a positive lynchet while the area reduced in level becomes a negative lynchet.

Once mastered, once you can see that Saxon reeve plodding along with his staff or the Celt ploughing his ancient lynchet, you'll begin to understand your own mortality.

The apsidal form of the eastern churchyard, upon a considerable lynchet edge, may suggest that originally the church was positioned upon an oval mound of earlier (perhaps religious) importance.

It's not very far or very steep, the first lynchet, but he's sweating with the effort, and maybe she's coming round now, trying to struggle, beginning to realize that something terrible is about to happen to her.

Evidence for this is in the form of a nearby medieval strip lynchet field system to the north of the village and a suggestion that the current church sits on the site of a medieval monastery.

In old English, a terrace was also called a "lynch" (lynchet) and an example of a Lynch Mill in Lyme Regis, for which the water arrives via a river ducted along a terrace.