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Summary

Several intersecting curvilinear banks and ditches, visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs in 1956, are interpreted as field boundaries of probable medieval or later date and are likely to have gone out of use by the mid nineteenth century.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• MORPH: DE.121.54.1

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD SYSTEM (Early Medieval to XIX - 1066 AD to 1840 AD (Between))

Full description

Devon County Council, 1838-1848, Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848 (Cartographic). SDV349431.

The bank and ditches do not correspond to any depicted field boundaries.

Royal Air Force, 1956, RAF/82/1451, NMR RAF/82/145 F21 0082-0083 12-JUL-1956 (Aerial Photograph). SDV349052.

Cornwall County Council, 2002, Cornwall National Mapping Programme (Archive - Survey). SDV350748.

A fragmentary random, mixed shape linear system, 'field' size on average 62m by 56m. Visible as earthwork and cropmark banks and ditches and transcribed from aerial photographs dating to 1956. Interpreted as the remains of field boundaries of medieval or later date.

Knight, S., 2012, Backlog Input Element of the North Devon Coast AONB National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV350734.

The intersecting curvilinear features are not depicted on the Tithe map and are likely to have gone out of use by the mid nineteenth century.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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