''Many Somerset villages have 'Lippiatts' or leap gates an early form of cattle grid dividing lowland and upland grazings. At Ebbor Gorge the site is still known as Deer Leap, and two stone pillars in a field mark the place wherethe gate separated village and common land. That was the purpose of the Lippiatts, the agile deer could leap from one side to another, the cattle and sheep were confined.'' This extract taken from Shirley Toulson's book, The Mendip Hills. A Threatened Landscape. I have also read that these gates made it difficult for the deer to return to the higher ground enabling the villagers to sample the deer without having to trespass in the king's forest.
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