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Summary

A linear bank is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs from 1946, and as a possible lynchet on aerial photographs dating to 2007. The earthwork remains of this former field boundary are likely to survive in part and may date to the medieval or perhaps post-medieval period, falling out of use before the late nineteenth century.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD BOUNDARY (Early Medieval to XIX - 1066 AD to 1840 AD (Between))

Full description

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

No field boundary is depicted in this location.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/3G/TUD/UK/158, DCC RAF/3G/TUD/UK/158 5080-5081 19-APR-1946 (Aerial Photograph). SDV349143.

A curvilinear bank is visible as a vegetated earthwork.

Ordnance Survey, 1978, OS/78016, NMR OS/78016 080-081 16-APR-1978 (Aerial Photograph). SDV349080.

A linear bank is visible as an earthwork.

Next Perspectives, 2007, Next Perspectives PGA Tile Ref:, Next Perspectives PGA Tile Ref: SS3423 22-AUG-2007 (Aerial Photograph). SDV349178.

A sharp break of slope is visible as a curvilinear earthwork.

Hegarty, C. + Knight, S., 2011 - 2012, North Devon Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV349018.

A linear bank, approximately 1 metre in width, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs from 1946. In the 1940s scrub or tree growth is established on the bank, but by the 1970s the bank is visible only as an earthwork within a cultivated field. A sharp break of slope is visible in this location on aerial photographs dating to 2007, and although any bank has apparently been removed or ploughed out it is possible that the break of slope is partly attributable to a build up of ploughsoil against a former boundary. No field boundary is depicted here on the 1880s-1890s Ordnance Survey mapping, and it is likely that the bank is a relict medieval, or perhaps post-medieval, field boundary that went out of use before the late nineteenth century.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV336179	Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 1880-1899. First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map. First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. Map (Digital).
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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SDV349080	Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1978. OS/78016. Ordnance Survey Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). NMR OS/78016 080-081 16-APR-1978. [Mapped feature: #61891 ]
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 5080-5081 19-APR-1946.
SDV349178	Aerial Photograph: Next Perspectives. 2007. Next Perspectives PGA Tile Ref:. Pan Government Agreement Aerial Photographs. Digital. Next Perspectives PGA Tile Ref: SS3423 22-AUG-2007.

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6132 - North Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty NMP Project

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