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HER Number: | MDV113007 |
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Name: | Ring Ditch East of Huxham |
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Summary
A possible ring ditch potentially of prehistoric to Roman date was visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark on the lower slopes of a west-facing hill overlooking the Culm valley, east of Huxham. The ring ditches might be evidence of a small barrow cemetery of Bronze Age date.
Location
Grid Reference: | SX 951 979 |
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Map Sheet: | SX99NE |
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Admin Area | Devon |
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Civil Parish | Huxham |
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District | East Devon |
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Ecclesiastical Parish | HUXHAM |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses: none recorded
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- RING DITCH (Early Bronze Age to Roman - 2200 BC to 409 AD? (Between))
- ROUND BARROW? (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))
Full description
English Heritage, 1984, NMR 2161, NMR 2161/191, 195 26-JUN-1984 (Aerial Photograph). SDV356816.
Circular cropmarks were visible.
DCC, 1989, DAP/6690, DAP 6690/01-02 20-FEB-1989 (LG) (Aerial Photograph). SDV358054.
Circular cropmarks were visible.
Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R., 2014-2015, East and Mid Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV356883.
A ring ditch potentially of prehistoric to Roman date was visible on aerial photographs as an incompletely visible cropmark on the lower slopes of a west-facing hill overlooking the Culm valley, east of Huxham. The visible cropmark is approximately 2 to 4 metres wide and defines approximately five sixths of a complete ring ditch approximately 22 metres in diameter. It was not possible to confidently transcribe the very western edge of the ring ditch where it approached the extant field boundary, probably due to it being obscured by cropmarks of modern agricultural origin or disturbance associated with the creation of the extant field boundary.
This is one of three similarly sized ring ditches visible in close proximity. It is often difficult to confidently interpret the date and function of ring ditches from cropmark evidence alone, but the grouping of three similarly sized ring ditches might support the interpretation of a small barrow cemetery of Bronze Age date.
All three ring ditches were previously recorded under MDV28715.
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
SDV356816 | Aerial Photograph: English Heritage. 1984. NMR 2161. NMR Aerial Photograph. Print. NMR 2161/191, 195 26-JUN-1984. |
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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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SDV358054 | Aerial Photograph: DCC. 1989. DAP/6690. Devon Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). DAP 6690/01-02 20-FEB-1989 (LG). [Mapped feature: #72349 ] |
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Associated Monuments
MDV28715 | Part of: Possible Barrow Cemetery East of Huxham (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- EDV6530 - The East and Mid-Devon Rivers Catchment NMP project (Ref: ACD613)
Date Last Edited: | Mar 23 2017 9:45AM |
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