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Summary

An earthwork bank-bounded ditch is visible on aerial photographs of the 1940s onwards on the south-eastern edge of West Haggington farmstead. The date and function of the ditch are unknown, but it might be evidence of the removal of field boundary potentially of medieval date.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• DITCH (Unknown date)
• FIELD BOUNDARY? (Early Medieval to XIX - 1066 AD to 1840 AD)

Full description

James Webb, 1840, Map for the commutation of Tithes in the Parish of Ilfracombe in the county of Devon (Cartographic). SDV350383.

The earthwork does not correspond with any depicted field boundary.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/106G/UK/1655, NMR RAF/106G/UK/1655 3169-70 11-JUL-1946 (Aerial Photograph). SDV349996.

A north to south orientated bank-bounded earthwork ditch is visible.

GetMapping, 1999, 089/99, DCC GM/089/99 0004-0005 05-SEP-1999 (Aerial Photograph). SDV349037.

The bank-bounded earthwork ditch remains visible.

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

An earthwork bank-bounded ditch is visible on aerial photographs of the 1940s onwards on the south-eastern edge of West Haggington farmstead. The roughly north-south orientated ditch measures up to 2.5 metres broad and is flanked by earthwork banks or spreads of spoil of similar dimesions. The date and function of the ditch are unknown, but it might be evidence of the removal or grubbing up of hedgerow and spread of a boundary bank, potentially of medieval date. The earthwork does not correspond with any boundary depicted on the tithe map for Ilfracombe, and if it is the remains of a former boundary it is therefore likely to have been removed prior to 1840. Alternatively, it must be considered possible that the earthwork was created after the publication of the Ordnance Survey second edition 25 inch map of 1904-1906. Modern ground disturbance in this area might explain the lack of identifiable earthwork remains of a water meadow gutter depicted on both the first and second edition 25 inch Ordnance Survey maps. However, the function of such a disturbance is unclear.

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.
	Linked documents:1
SDV349037	Aerial Photograph: GetMapping. 1999. 089/99. GetMapping Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). DCC GM/089/99 0004-0005 05-SEP-1999.
SDV349996	Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1946. RAF/106G/UK/1655. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). NMR RAF/106G/UK/1655 3169-70 11-JUL-1946. [Mapped feature: #62585 ]
SDV350383	Cartographic: James Webb. 1840. Map for the commutation of Tithes in the Parish of Ilfracombe in the county of Devon. Tithe Map.

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

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

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