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Summary

Two ring ditches within cursus, Nether Exe. Identified during geophysical survey.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1014144: Cursus, long mortuary enclosure, ring ditch and other associated cropmarks 700m east of Netherexe Barton
• SHINE: Neolithic cursus, long mortuary enclosure, Bronze Age ring ditch and undated linears

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• RING DITCH (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC (Between))

Full description

Bayer, O. J., 03/2008, Geophysical Survey of a Cursus, Long Mortuary Enclosure, Ring Ditch and Associated Features at Nether Exe, Devon, 2 (Report - Survey). SDV350645.

Two ring ditches, one of which is also identified by aerial photography. Both features are likely to represent late Neolithic/early Bronze Age funerary or ritual structures, contemporary with, or immediately post dating, the use of the cursus.

English Heritage, 2011, Heritage at Risk Register 2011: South West, 92 (Report - non-specific). SDV355280.

Extensive significant problems, ie under plough, collapse. Declining. Principal vulnerability arable ploughing.

Ordnance Survey, 2012, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV348725.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6075 - Geophysical Survey of a Cursus, Long Mortuary Enclosure, Ring Ditch and Associated Features at Nether Exe, Devon

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