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Summary

A roughly rectangular earthwork hollow or terrace was visible on digital images derived from lidar data, cut into the gentle combe slopes to the west of Ratsloe. The earthworks were probably the remains of a former field of post-medieval date.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD (Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD to 1840 AD (Between))

Full description

Devon County Council, 1838-1848, Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848 (Cartographic). SDV349431.

The earthwork hollow does not correspond with any depicted feature but falls within the shown field pattern.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

An orchard was depicted.

Environment Agency, 1998-2014, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution), LIDAR SX9597 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 30-SEP-2014 (Cartographic). SDV359177.

A rectilinear hollow or sunken terrace was visible.

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

A roughly rectangular earthwork hollow or terrace was visible on digital images derived from lidar data, cut into the gentle combe slopes to the west of Ratsloe. The earthwork measured up to circa 80 by 50 metres in size and did not correspond with any features depicted on the Tithe Map for Poltimore or the Ordnance Survey First Edition 25 inch map. The plot in which the hollow was visible was depicted on the Ordnance Survey First Edition 25 inch map as an orchard, which remained in use into the 20th century. The earthwork was not visible as a newly cut feature on the aerial photographs available to the survey and therefore probably predated the creation of the orchard. Although not depicted, the hollow or terrace falls within the field pattern depicted on the Tithe Map for Poltimore, and might be evidence of a field boundary that passed out of use prior to the 1840s.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV325644	Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 1904 - 1906. Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. Map (Digital).
SDV349431	Cartographic: Devon County Council. 1838-1848. Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848. Digitised Tithe Map. Digital.
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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SDV359177	Cartographic: Environment Agency. 1998-2014. LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution). Environment Agency LiDAR data. Digital. LIDAR SX9597 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 30-SEP-2014. [Mapped feature: #73340 ]

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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