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| HER Number: | MDV102292 |
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| Name: | Curvilinear enclosure south-west of Seckington Farm |
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Summary
A possible curvilinear enclosure with inner ditch and outer bank is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs of 1946, on a south-west facing slope above a watercourse. The feature is only visible on a single run of aerial photographs so interpretation is tentative, but the cropmarks have potentially formed over a later prehistoric or Romano-British enclosed settlement.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SS 286 212 |
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| Map Sheet: | SS22SE |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Clovelly |
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| Civil Parish | Hartland |
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| District | Torridge |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | CLOVELLY |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | HARTLAND |
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Protected Status
- SHINE: Cropmarks of later prehistoric or Romano-British settlement Enclosure, south of Seckington Farm
Other References/Statuses
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Early Bronze Age to Roman - 2200 BC to 409 AD (Between))
Full description
Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/3G/TUD/UK/158, DCC RAF/3G/TUD/UK/158 5119-5120 19-APR-1946 (Aerial Photograph). SDV349143.
A curvilinear enclosure is visible as a dark cropmark ditch and short section of pale cropmark bank in two fields.
Hegarty, C. + Knight, S., 2011 - 2012, North Devon Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV349018.
A possible curvilinear enclosure 50 metres by 55 metres is visible as a dark cropmark ditch just under 3 metres wide with a small section of possible plough-levelled outer bank circa 3 metres wide, on a south-west facing slope above a watercourse, on aerial photographs dating to 1946. The feature is only visible on a single run of aerial photographs so some caution must be applied in interpretation, but in form it is broadly similar to known enclosed settlements of later prehistoric or Romano-British date. There may be roughly contemporary archaeological sites on the high ground to the east.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV349018 | Interpretation: Hegarty, C. + Knight, S.. 2011 - 2012. North Devon Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty National Mapping Programme Project. AC Archaeology Report. ACD383/2/1. Digital. |
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| SDV349143 | Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1946. RAF/3G/TUD/UK/158. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). DCC RAF/3G/TUD/UK/158 5119-5120 19-APR-1946. [Mapped feature: #61742 ] |
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Associated Monuments: none recorded
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- EDV6132 - North Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty NMP Project
| Date Last Edited: | Jun 15 2018 11:08AM |
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