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| HER Number: | MDV112974 |
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| Name: | Possible Ring Ditch North East of Hayes Farm, Poltimore |
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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 gentle east-facing slopes to the north-east of Hayes Farm, Poltimore.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 965 977 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX99NE |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Poltimore |
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| District | East Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | POLTIMORE |
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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))
Full description
DCC, 1987, DAP 5652, DAP 5652/05-06 17-JUL-1987 (IW) (Aerial Photograph). SDV357595.
A very narrow and faint cropmark was 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 gentle east-facing slopes to the north-east of Hayes Farm, Poltimore. The cropmark is less than 1 metre wide and encloses an area over 11 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, possibly associated with the ditched enclosure immediately to the north.
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. |
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| SDV357595 | Aerial Photograph: DCC. 1987. DAP 5652. Devon Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). DAP 5652/05-06 17-JUL-1987 (IW). [Mapped feature: #72330 ] |
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Associated Monuments: none recorded
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- EDV6530 - The East and Mid-Devon Rivers Catchment NMP project (Ref: ACD613)
| Date Last Edited: | Mar 23 2017 9:43AM |
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