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Summary

An irregular pit is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs from 1946 and on images derived from Lidar data gathered in 2007. A small quarry at the eastern end was active in the early twentieth century, and the western part is likely to have been a quarry eploited and disused prior to the late nineteenth century, perhaps for the construction of post-medieval roads or field boundaries.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• QUARRY (Early Medieval to XIX - 1066 AD to 1880 AD (Between))

Full description

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

No quarry is depicted in this location.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

A small quarry is marked, within a rectangular enclosure.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/3G/TUD/UK/158, DCC RAF 3G/TUD/UK/158 5082-5083 19-APR-1946 (Aerial Photograph). SDV349143.

An irregular earthwork pit is visible, covered by vegetation growth.

Environment Agency, 2003, LiDAR data JPEG image (2 metre resolution), LIDAR SS3422 Environment Agency D0091158 15-MAR-2003 (Cartographic). SDV349324.

An irregular earthwork pit is visible alongside the road.

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

An irregular pit is visible as an earthwork, up to 21 metres wide and approximately 160 metres alongside the road, on aerial photographs from 1946 and on images derived from Lidar data gathered in 2007. A small quarry is marked at the far eastern end on 1904-1906, but not earlier, Ordnance Survey maps. It is likely that the pit is a former quarry that was exploited in more than one phase, with the most recent being the section 15 metres by 15 metres at the eastern end in the first half of the twentieth century, and the earliest pre-dating the late nineteenth century. Its location next to the road suggests that the extracted material could have been used for the construction of the straight roads, presumably in the post-medieval or modern period, or for field boundary creation in the medieval or post-medieval period. Nearby field names of 'Bloody Park' indicate a battlefield, and it is possible, although perhaps unlikely, that extraction of roadside material was related to temporary Civil War defences.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV325644	Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 1904 - 1906. Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. Map (Digital).
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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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 5082-5083 19-APR-1946.
SDV349324	Cartographic: Environment Agency. 2003. LiDAR data JPEG image (2 metre resolution). Environment Agency LiDAR data. Digital. LIDAR SS3422 Environment Agency D0091158 15-MAR-2003. [Mapped feature: #61895 ]

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

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

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