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HER Number:MDV108602
Name:Ring Ditch South of Waterleat House

Summary

A possible ring ditch potentially of prehistoric date was visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark to the south-east of Waterleat House.

Location

Grid Reference:SS 962 019
Map Sheet:SS90SE
Admin AreaDevon
Civil ParishSilverton
DistrictMid Devon
Ecclesiastical ParishSILVERTON

Protected Status

  • SHINE: Prehistoric ring ditched and enclosure west of Hayne House

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

  • NON ANTIQUITY? (Unknown date)
  • RING DITCH (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Devon County Council, 1990, DAP 11946, DAP 11946/09 25-JUL-1990 (TM) (Aerial Photograph). SDV357504.

A possible ring ditch is visible as cropmark.


Griffith, F. M., 1990, DAP/TM, 9 (Aerial Photograph). SDV343943.

Two possible ring ditches were visible as cropmarks in the field to south of Waterleat House. Several other ring ditches are also visible in the vicinity.


Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R., 2014-2015, East and Mid Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV356883.

A possible ring ditch was visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark to the south-east of Waterleat House. Several cropmark ring ditches, probably evidence of barrows of Bronze Age date, are visible on the gentle slopes to the south-east. It is therefore possible that this cropmark is evidence of a funerary monument of similar date.
However, this cropmark is relatively faint, incomplete, somewhat irregular in plan and has not been recorded from any other aerial photographs available to the survey. It therefore seems likley that it is not archaeological in origin. It was previously recorded with MDV79088.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV343943Aerial Photograph: Griffith, F. M.. 1990. DAP/TM. Devon Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). 9.
SDV356883Interpretation: Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R.. 2014-2015. East and Mid Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project. AC Archaeology Report. Digital.
Linked documents:1
SDV357504Aerial Photograph: Devon County Council. 1990. DAP 11946. Devon Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). DAP 11946/09 25-JUL-1990 (TM). [Mapped feature: #67956 ]

Associated Monuments

MDV79088Related to: Ring Ditch South of Waterleat House (Monument)
MDV57872Related to: Ring Ditch to North-West of Hayne House, Silverton (Monument)
MDV17135Related to: Ring Ditch to South of Waterleat House, Silverton (Monument)
MDV79084Related to: Ring Ditch to South of Waterleat House, Silverton (Monument)

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

  • EDV6530 - The East and Mid-Devon Rivers Catchment NMP project (Ref: ACD613)

Date Last Edited:Aug 17 2017 6:13PM