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Summary

The remains of former field boundaries or lynchets of possible medieval origin are visible as earthwork banks on aerial photographs and images derived from Lidar data, located on west facing hill slopes to the south of Mortehoe Station Road, Mortehoe.

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)
• LYNCHET (Early Medieval to XIX - 1066 AD to 1840 AD)

Full description

Bathurst, Hugh, 1840, Original Working Plan of the Parish of Morthoe in the County of Devon (Cartographic). SDV350336.

Two of the transcribed earthworks appear to correspond with depicted field boundaries. The undepicted boundaries nonetheless form a coherent field pattern with those depicted in 1840.

Bathurst, Hugh, 1840, Original Working Plan of the Parish of Morthoe in the County of Devon (Cartographic). SDV350336.

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

The earthworks do not correspond with any depicted boundaries.

Ordnance Survey, 1989, OS/89114, NMR OS/89114 671-672 04-MAY-1989 (Aerial Photograph). SDV350315.

Low linear earthwork banks are visible.

Environment Agency, 2007, LiDAR data JPEG image (1 metre resolution), LIDAR SS4545 Environment Agency D0079046 01-APR-2007 (Cartographic). SDV350317.

Low linear earthwork banks are visible.

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

The remains of as many as five former field boundary banks or possible cultivation terraces or lynchets of possible medieval origin are visible as earthwork banks on aerial photographs of 1989 and interactive digital images derived from Lidar data acquired in 2007, centred at circa SS45894517 on west facing hill slopes to the south of Mortehoe Station Road, Mortehoe. Two of the relict banks probably might correspond with former field boundaries depicted on the 1840 Tithe map for Mortehoe, but all had passed out of use by the time of the publication of the Ordnance Survey first edition map.

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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SDV350315	Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1989. OS/89114. Ordnance Survey Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). NMR OS/89114 671-672 04-MAY-1989.
SDV350317	Cartographic: Environment Agency. 2007. LiDAR data JPEG image (1 metre resolution). Environment Agency LiDAR data. Digital. LIDAR SS4545 Environment Agency D0079046 01-APR-2007. [Mapped feature: #62559 ]
SDV350336	Cartographic: Bathurst, Hugh. 1840. Original Working Plan of the Parish of Morthoe in the County of Devon. Tithe Map.

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

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

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