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Summary

An irregularly shaped pit, interpreted as a post-medieval or 19th century extractive pit, is visible as an earthwork on 1940’s RAF aerial photographs and on visualisations derived from lidar data captured in 2019. The extractive pit had probably passed out of use by the mid-19th century.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• QUARRY (Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

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

The earthwork corresponds with an oval feature.

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

The northern edge of the earthwork corresponds with a prominent kink in the field boundary.

Royal Air Force, 1946 - 1949, Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV342938.

An earthwork pit is possibly visible.

Environment Agency, 2000-2019, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) EA: Tamar Aerial Survey project area, LIDAR Environment Agency LAST RETURN 19-APR-2019 (Cartographic). SDV363954.

An irregularly shaped pit is visible as an earthwork.

Hegarty, C., Houghton, E., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2020-2021, Tamar/Lidar; A Single Source Approach to Landscape Survey and Socially Distanced Community Archaeology Area 1 (AI&M project) (Interpretation). SDV363945.

An irregularly shaped pit, circa 20 metres long by 7 metres wide, is visible as an earthwork on 1940’s RAF aerial photographs and on visualisations derived from lidar data captured in 2019.
The earthwork corresponds with an oval feature shown on the mid-19th century Parish Tithe Map. Its northern edge is defined by prominent kink in the field boundary on the late-19th century First Edition Ordnance Survey map and an earthwork labelled as ‘Quarry’ is shown to the east on this map. The pit also corresponds with an earthwork on the 2021 Ordnance Survey MasterMap.
The earthwork is therefore interpreted as a post-medieval or 19th century extractive pit that had probably passed out of use by the mid-19th century.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

The pit corresponds with an earthwork.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8345 - Tamar/Lidar; A Single Source Approach to Landscape Survey and Socially Distanced Community Archaeology Area 1 (AI&M) (Ref: ACD2380)

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