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Summary

Narrow ridge and furrow, in ten blocks each with different alignments, is visible as extensive earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1978. It is likely to be a result of post-medieval or modern drainage ploughing for agricultural improvement. Indistinct ridges visible on lidar data captured in 2013 indicate that some earthworks survive.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019258: Four bowl barrows on Bursdon Moor, 270m north west of Summerville Cross
• SHINE: Prehistoric round barrow north-east of West Bursdon Farm
• SHINE: Prehistoric bowl barrow east of Bursdon Moor Cross
• SHINE: Prehistoric bowl barrows east of Bursdon Moor Cross

Other References/Statuses

• MORPH: DE.121.18.1
• MORPH: DE.121.18.10
• MORPH: DE.121.18.2
• MORPH: DE.121.18.3
• MORPH: DE.121.18.4
• MORPH: DE.121.18.5
• MORPH: DE.121.18.6
• MORPH: DE.121.18.7
• MORPH: DE.121.18.8
• MORPH: DE.121.18.9

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• NARROW RIDGE AND FURROW (Post Medieval to Late 20th Century - 1540 AD to 1978 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1978, OS/78038, NMR OS/78038 308-309 10-MAY-1978 (Aerial Photograph). SDV349082.

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

Narrow Ridge and Furrow max. length between 105 and 290m. Visible as earthworks and transcribed as ten separate but grouped areas from aerial photographs taken in 1978. Dated as prehistoric. The transcriptions show the ridges to be curvilinear and each of the ten areas has a different alignment.

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

The ridge and furrow is aligned cross-contour and is likely to be a result of post-medieval or modern ploughing to improve drainage for agricultural production. On the north of the moor the narrow ridge and furrow appears to respect some of the barrows (for example MDV110), whilst running over others (such as MDV12410), and therefore certainly post-dates these probable Bronze Age monuments.

NERC, 2013, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) Tellus: Tamar Aerial Survey project area, LIDAR Tellus LAST RETURN 01-JUL-2013 to 31-AUG-2013 (Cartographic). SDV363955.

Indistinct parallel linear earthwork banks are visible.

Hegarty, C., Houghton, E., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2020-2021, Tamar/Lidar; A Single Source Approach to Landscape Survey and Socially Distanced Community Archaeology Area 2 (Culture Recovery Fund project) (Interpretation). SDV364011.

The narrow ridge and furrow is visible as indistinct linear banks on images derived from lidar data captured in 2013, demonstrating that some earthworks survive.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8356 - Tamar/Lidar; A Single Source Approach to Landscape Survey and Socially Distanced Community Archaeology Area 2 (Culture Recovery Fund) (Ref: ACD2424)

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