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Summary

A cropmark ditch of an enclsoure of potential prehistoric date is visible on aerial photographs taken in 1955, to the south of Longwood, Highampton.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSURE (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2200 BC to 42 AD (Between))

Full description

Young, A., 2005, Transcriptions from Winkleigh Biomass Plant National Mapping Programme (NMP) project (Cartographic). SDV321540.

Transcriptions of a ditch correpond to the grid reference for PRN167563.

Young, A. & Turner, S., 2005-2006, North Devon/Winkleigh Biomass Plant National Mapping Programme (NMP) project database records, PRN167563 (Interpretation). SDV358473.

A possible curvilinear univallate enclosure is visible as a faint and indistinct cropmark ditch on aerial photographs (p1) and was digitally plotted as part of the National Mapping Programme. The enclosure is suboval in shape, 28m x 21m, with a possible entrance facing south east. It lies within an area classed as medieval enclosures based on strip fields in the Historic Landscape Characterisation for Devon.
Photograph reference:
1. RAF 82/1199/F21/061&2 25-MAY-1955

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7455 - Winkleigh Biomass Plant National Mapping Programme

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