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Summary

Curvilinear cropmark and earthwork banks and ditches are visible on aerial photographs between 1946 and 1978, interpreted as field boundaries of probable medieval or later date and are likely to have gone out of use by the mid nineteenth century.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• MORPH: DE.121.45.1

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD SYSTEM (Early Medieval to XIX - 1066 AD to 1840 AD (Between))

Full description

Devon County Council, 1838-1848, Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848 (Cartographic). SDV349431.

The banks do not correspond to any depicted field boundaries.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1793, NMR RAF/CPE/UK/1793 3012-3013 12-OCT-1946 (Aerial Photograph). SDV349050.

Map object partly based on this source.

Ordnance Survey, 1978, OS/78038, NMR OS/78038 313-314 10-MAY-1978 (Aerial Photograph). SDV349082.

Map object partly based on this source.

Cornwall County Council, 2002, Cornwall National Mapping Programme (Archive - Survey). SDV350748.

A fragmentary ordered, rectilinear linear system, 'field' size on average 50m by 37m. Visible as earthwork and cropmark bank and ditches and transcribed from aerial photographs taken between 1946 and 1978. Interpreted as the remains of field boundaries of medieval or later date.

Knight, S., 2012, Backlog Input Element of the North Devon Coast AONB National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV350734.

The probable field boundaries are not depicted on the Tithe map and are likely to have gone out of use by the mid nineteenth century.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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