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Summary

A possible ring ditch of later prehistoric to Roman date was visible on aerial photographs as a very narrow and faint cropmark on the level floor of a shallow combe to the east of Burrow Cross, Broad Clyst.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• RING DITCH (Early Iron Age to Roman - 700 BC to 409 AD (Between))
• ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC)? (Early Iron Age to Roman - 700 BC to 409 AD (Between))

Full description

Devon County Council, 1989, DAP 6772, DAP 6772/04-05 12-JUL-1989 (OD) (Aerial Photograph). SDV358870.

A possible ring ditch is visible.

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

A possible ring ditch of later prehistoric to Roman date was visible on aerial photographs as a very narrow and faint cropmark on the level floor of a shallow combe to the east of Burrow Cross, Broad Clyst. The cropmark is less than 1 metre wide but encloses an area over 9 metres in diameter. It is difficult to identify the date and function of ring ditches from cropmark evidence alone, but it might be evidence of a round house of Iron age to Roman date.
Many of the aerial photographs consulted by the survey are copies of DAPs held by the Historic England Archive. In some cases these have been recorded as separate sources. This is because variations in the way the prints have been processed could result in images on which archaeological features are visible to a greater or lesser degree.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV356883	Interpretation: 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
SDV358870	Aerial Photograph: Devon County Council. 1989. DAP 6772. Devon Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). DAP 6772/04-05 12-JUL-1989 (OD). [Mapped feature: #72309 ]

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

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

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