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Summary

A dark curvilinear ditch is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs taken in 1946. The cropmark may have formed over a removed medieval or post medieval field boundary that went out of use before the mid nineteenth century. However it is possible that the ditch was part of a much earlier field system of Iron Age or Roman date. It is not visible on any later available aerial photographs and caution must be applied in interpretetation.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• DITCH (Early Iron Age to XIX - 700 BC to 1844 AD (Between))

Full description

Warren and Co. Surveyors., 1844, First copy of the map of the Parish of Hartland in the County of Devon in two Parts. (Cartographic). SDV349361.

No field boundary is depicted in this location.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/106G/UK/1631, NMR RAF 106G/UK/1631 1064-1065 08-JUL-1946 (Aerial Photograph). SDV349549.

A curvilinear ditch is visible as a cropmark.

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

A dark curvilinear ditch, approximatey 2 metres in width and aligned approximately north-west to south-east, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs taken in 1946. The cropmark may have formed over a removed medieval or post medieval field boundary which, as none is depicted here on the 1844 Tithe map,went out of use before the mid nineteenth century. However, given the possible late prehistoric or Romano-British date of some other cropmarks in this area, it is possible that the ditch was part of a much earlier field system. It is not visible on any later available aerial photographs and caution must be applied in interpretetation, but further archaeological survey work in this area might help to clarify the character of this and other cropmark features, and identify additional features.

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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SDV349361	Cartographic: Warren and Co. Surveyors.. 1844. First copy of the map of the Parish of Hartland in the County of Devon in two Parts.. Tithe Map.
SDV349549	Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1946. RAF/106G/UK/1631. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). NMR RAF 106G/UK/1631 1064-1065 08-JUL-1946. [Mapped feature: #61914 ]

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

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

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