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Summary

Cropmark and earthwork banks and ditches are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1946, interpreted as field boundaries of probable medieval or later date and likely to have gone out of use by the mid nineteenth century.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Cropmarks of mounds forming part of a probable Bronze Age barrow cemetery to west of Shorstone Farm

Other References/Statuses

• MORPH: DE.122.2.1

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 banks and ditches do not correspond to any depicted field boundaries.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1793, NMR RAF/CPE/UK/1793 4016-4017 12-OCT-1946 (Aerial Photograph). SDV349050.

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

An ordered, rectilinear linear system, 'field' size on average 87m by 40m. Visible as cropmark and earthwork banks and ditches and transcribed from aerial photographs taken in 1946. Interpreted as the remains of a field system of medieval or later date.

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

The banks and ditches 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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