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Summary

A ring ditch was visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark on the east facing slopes to the south-east of Dunsmore Cottages. It is probable that the cropmarks are the remains of a barrow of Bronze Age date.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Three prehistoric ring ditches and undated field boundaries south west of Dunsmore Cottages

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS90SE/66

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

NOT NECESSARILY RELATED, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV37137.

Dunsmore cottages. Rectilinear single ditched enclosure c 50m x 50m within which is a circular feature (not necessarily related). First recorded as crop mark by f. Griffith in june 1984.

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV37139.

Aph=dap/u 12 + 13(25/6/1984).

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV37140.

Aph=dq 11a,12(2/8/1984).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV37141.

Des=dprfp 1991.

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV37142.

Aph=dap/tq 7,8(9/8/1990).

DPRFP, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV262469.

Vis=23/1/1991 (robinson) 'enclosure' is old field boundaries, present on 1842 tithe map. Ring ditch is on level ground, nothing visible (dprfp).

Griffith, F. M., 1996, DAP/ZZ, Devon County Council DAP/ZZ 7-8 17-JUL-1996 (Aerial Photograph). SDV346159.

A ring ditch is visible as a cropmark.

Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R., 2014-2015, East and Mid Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV356883.

A ring ditch was visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark to the south-east of Dunsmore Cottages. The cropmark is between 2 to 3 metres wide, enclosing an area up to 14 metres in diameter. It is probable that the cropmarks are the remains of a barrow of Bronze Age date, one of three in close proximity on the east facing slopes of a shallow combe. The ring ditch was previously recorded as located within a rectilinear enclosure. The linear cropmarks correspond with field boundaries depicted on the Tithe Map for Silverton and are probably post-medieval in date. They former boundaries have not been transcribed as part of the survey.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV262469	Migrated Record: DPRFP.
SDV346159	Aerial Photograph: Griffith, F. M.. 1996. DAP/ZZ. Devon Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). Devon County Council DAP/ZZ 7-8 17-JUL-1996. [Mapped feature: #86324 ]
SDV356883	Interpretation: Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R.. 2014-2015. East and Mid Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project. AC Archaeology Report. Digital.
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SDV37137	Migrated Record: NOT NECESSARILY RELATED.
SDV37139	Aerial Photograph:
SDV37140	Aerial Photograph:
SDV37141	Migrated Record:
SDV37142	Aerial Photograph:

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6530 - The East and Mid-Devon Rivers Catchment NMP project (Ref: ACD613)

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