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Summary

Two curvilinear ditches are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs between 1946 and 2011. They are likely to be water channels and to predate the late nineteenth century. Earthworks of one may survive.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• WATER CHANNEL (Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD to 1839 AD)

Full description

George Braund and Henry Hearn, 1839, Map of the Parish of Georgeham in the county of Devon surveyed for the commutation of Tithe (Cartographic). SDV349926.

No features are depicted in this location.

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

A north to south aligned boundary is depicted, separating fields 210 and 211, and a water channel is depicted around the northern boundary of the field.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/106G/UK/1631, NMR RAF/106G/UK/1631 5099-5100 08-JUL-1946 (Aerial Photograph). SDV349549.

A curvilinear ditch is visible as an earthwork.

Royal Air Force, 1957, RAF/58/2205 F21, NMR RAF/58/2205 F21 0076 05-JUL-1957 (Aerial Photograph). SDV349736.

Two ditches are visible as curvilinear earthworks.

Next Perspectives, 2001, Next Perspectives PGA Tile Ref:, Next Perspectives PGA Tile Ref: SS4439 22-MAY-2001 (Aerial Photograph). SDV349376.

One of the linear ditches is visible, but the more northerly is now the site of a car park.

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

Two curvilinear ditches, circa 2 metres in width and up to 150 metres long, are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs between 1946 and 2001. They are aligned east to west and located either side of a small watercourse, so are likely to be water channels either to irrigate the field or more likely to control water flow. They are crossed by a straight field boundary that appears to have been constructed between 1839 and the 1880s and the ditches therefore presumably predate the late nineteenth century. The subdivision of the field may have been contemporary wth the creation of a water channel around the northern periphery of the fields, which is depicted on the 1880s-1890s Ordnance Survey map, presumably to redirect the flow of water when the two earthwork channels could no longer be used. A weir marked on mid twentieth century maps (MDV31621) confirms that water management systems have been important for farming this field. One of the ditches is likely to survive as an earthwork, but the other had been destroyed or obscured by a car park and landscaping by 2001.

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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SDV349376	Aerial Photograph: Next Perspectives. 2001. Next Perspectives PGA Tile Ref:. Pan Government Agreement Aerial Photographs. Digital. Next Perspectives PGA Tile Ref: SS4439 22-MAY-2001.
SDV349549	Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1946. RAF/106G/UK/1631. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). NMR RAF/106G/UK/1631 5099-5100 08-JUL-1946.
SDV349736	Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1957. RAF/58/2205 F21. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). NMR RAF/58/2205 F21 0076 05-JUL-1957. [Mapped feature: #62562 ]
SDV349926	Cartographic: George Braund and Henry Hearn. 1839. Map of the Parish of Georgeham in the county of Devon surveyed for the commutation of Tithe. 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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