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Summary

Former field boundaries of between medieval to 19th century date are visible as earthwork bank and ditch features on aerial photographs of 1947 onwards, to the north of Bidwell Farm. They remain visible on digital images derived from lidar data captured in 2016.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD BOUNDARY (Early Medieval to XIX - 1066 AD to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

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

The field boundaries appear to have largely passed out of use.

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FS 2308 11-APR-1947 (Aerial Photograph). SDV356127.

Earthworks are partly visible.

Bluesky International, 2016, LiDAR DTM data (0.5m resolution) Blackdown Hills and East Devon AONBs: 3 transects, LIDAR ST2007 Bluesky International DTM 30-APR-2016 & 04-MAY-2016 (Cartographic). SDV359714.

The former field boundaries are visible as earthwork bank and ditch features.

Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R., 2016-2018, The Blackdown Hills AONB and East Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV359463.

Former field boundaries of between medieval to 19th century date are visible as earthwork bank and ditch features on aerial photographs of 1947 onwards, to the north of Bidwell Farm. The earthworks comprise two broadly T-shaped banks, northeast to southwest and east to west aligned, which are partly flanked on either side by earthwork ditches, with a single northeast to southwest aligned bank in the adjacent plot to the south. The boundaries appear to have largely passed out of use by the time of the Parish Tithe map of 1838-48, possibly with the exception of the northern-most east to west aligned bank and ditch which possibly correspond to a field boundary depicted here on this map. The Historic Landscape Characterisation project has classified this area as comprising ‘Medieval enclosures based on strip fields’, so may in part be of medieval origin. The earthworks remain visible on digital images derived from lidar data captured in 2016.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV349431	Cartographic: Devon County Council. 1838-1848. Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848. Digitised Tithe Map. Digital.
SDV356127	Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1947. RAF/CPE/UK/1974. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FS 2308 11-APR-1947.
SDV359463	Interpretation: Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R.. 2016-2018. The Blackdown Hills AONB and East Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project. Historic England Research Report. Digital.
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SDV359714	Cartographic: Bluesky International. 2016. LiDAR DTM data (0.5m resolution) Blackdown Hills and East Devon AONBs: 3 transects. Not applicable. Digital. LIDAR ST2007 Bluesky International DTM 30-APR-2016 & 04-MAY-2016. [Mapped feature: #75683 ]

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7508 - The Blackdown Hills AONB and East Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme (NMP) project (Ref: ACD1228)

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