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Summary

Ditch defined enclosures and ditched field boundaries of possible Iron Age or Roman date are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs of 1976 on a north-facing combe slope to the south of Brinscott Farm. The cropmarks are not visible on later aerial photographs available to the survey.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Cropmarks of enclosure and linear features of possible Roman or Iron Age date to north-east of Highlands

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Early Iron Age to Roman - 700 BC to 409 AD)

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1976, MAL/76048, NMR MAL/76048 221-222 25-JUN-1976 (Aerial Photograph). SDV350659.

Cropmarks of possible ditched rectilinear enclosures are visible.

Hegarty, C. + Knight, S., 2011 - 2012, North Devon Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV349018.

Ditch defined square or rectilinear enclosures and possibly associated ditched field boundaries potentially of Iron Age or Roman date are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs of 1976 on a north-facing combe slope to the south of Brinscott Farm. The cropmarks have been interpreted as showing two conjoined square or rectilinear enclosures, measuring at least 34 metres to a side, overlooking the combe of a tributary of the River Yeo. The enclosures overlie, or are overlain by, a possible pit alignment. Similar pit alignments elsewhere have been interpreted as possible agricultural land division boundaries of Iron Age date. A narrow linear cropmark orientated south-west to north-east which appears to overlie the possible enclosures might be of more recent date. The cropmarks are not visible on later aerial photographs available to the survey.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV349018	Interpretation: Hegarty, C. + Knight, S.. 2011 - 2012. North Devon Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty National Mapping Programme Project. AC Archaeology Report. ACD383/2/1. Digital.
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SDV350659	Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1976. MAL/76048. Ordnance Survey Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). NMR MAL/76048 221-222 25-JUN-1976. [Mapped feature: #62731 ]

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6132 - North Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty NMP Project

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