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Summary

A series of cropmark ditches and a bank of former medieval or post-medieval field boundaries are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1979, on Darracott Moor Great Torrington.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD BOUNDARY (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

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

Transcriptions of linear ditches and a bank correspond to the grid reference for PRN167426.

Young, A. & Turner, S., 2005-2006, North Devon/Winkleigh Biomass Plant National Mapping Programme (NMP) project database records, PRN167426 (Interpretation). SDV358473.

A series of linear features are visible as single banks and ditches on aerial photographs (p1). The features are sited within an area described as ‘Post-medieval enclosures with medieval elements’ in Devon’s Historic Landscape Characterisation, and are likely to be field boundaries of medieval or later origin. They have been digitally plotted as part of the National Mapping Programme.
Photograph reference:
1. OS 79/010/245-7 16-APR-1979

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7455 - Winkleigh Biomass Plant National Mapping Programme

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