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Summary

An oval pit is visible as a dark cropmark on aerial photographs taken in 1995. Interpreted as a possible quarry pit of post-medieval date. Although the land appears to be cultivated below-ground remains may survive.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Membland Hall Parkland and Gardens. Victorian landscaped park including cropmarks of a medieval enclosure, a quarry pit of probable post-medieval date and World War One slit trenches and earthwork remains of a catch meadow of probable post medieval date

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• QUARRY (Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

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

No quarry is shown in this location, which is depicted as wooded.

Ordnance Survey, 1995, OS/95639, NMR OS/95639 V 149-150 25-JUL-1995 (Aerial Photograph). SDV351259.

A dark oval cropmark is visible.

Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R., 2013-2014, South Devon Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV351146.

An oval pit, 9 by 7 metres, is visible as a dark cropmark on aerial photographs taken in 1995. It is too large for a tree throw and clearly defined, characteristic of a quarry pit. Although it was not depicted on late nineteenth or early twentieth century mapping the area was depicted as woodland at this time, which may have obscured any earthworks of a disused post-medieval extraction pit. Although the land appears to be cultivated below-ground remains may survive.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV336179	Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 1880-1899. First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map. First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. Map (Digital).
SDV351146	Interpretation: Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R.. 2013-2014. South Devon Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Project. AC Archaeology Report. Digital.
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SDV351259	Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1995. OS/95639. Ordnance Survey. Photograph (Paper). NMR OS/95639 V 149-150 25-JUL-1995. [Mapped feature: #63433 ]

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6127 - Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme (NMP) for South-West England - South Coast Devon (Ref: ACD618)

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