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Summary

A series of curvilinear banks and ditches are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and on visualisations derived from lidar data captured in 2013 south-west of Coombe Lodge. They are interpreted as medieval to post-medieval field boundaries, that passed out of use by the mid-19th century.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD SYSTEM (Early Medieval to XIX - 1066 AD to 1840 AD (Between))

Full description

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

One of the banks transcribed by the Tamar Valley NMP project corresponds approximately with a depicted field boundary.

Cornwall Archaeological Unit, 2001-2002, Tamar Valley National Mapping Programme Transcriptions and Database Records, MAL 127/71/073-4 (Interpretation). SDV346287.

A series of earthwork ditch and banked features interpreted as a field system of unknown, but potential medieval, date are visible on aerial photographs.

NERC, 2013, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) Tellus: Tamar Aerial Survey project area, LIDAR Tellus LAST RETURN 01-JUL-2013 to 31-AUG-2013 (Cartographic). SDV363955.

Several curvilinear banks and ditches are visible as earthworks.

Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2016, Backlog Recording of the Tamar Valley National Mapping Programme Survey (Personal Comment). SDV359374.

Only part of the photo reference is given in the transcription attributes, so the date of the photograph is not known.

Google, 2019, Google Earth Pro, EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 01-JAN-2001 ACCESSED 13-APR-2021 (Aerial Photograph). SDV363088.

Some of the earthworks are visible on aerial photographs dating from 2001.

Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2020-2021, Tamar/Lidar; A Single Source Approach to Landscape Survey and Socially Distanced Community Archaeology Area 1 (AI&M project) (Interpretation). SDV363945.

A series of curvilinear banks and ditches are visible as earthworks on visualisations derived from lidar data captured in 2013. The earthworks are situated across a north-west and west facing field south-west of Coombe Lodge.
Some sections of bank adjoin part of the quarry earthworks (MDV114244) adjacent, and are orientated both south and south-west. Two sections of bank are closely parallel to each other, while another to the south-west is flanked by a ditch which forms an L-shape.
The earthworks do not correspond with any features depicted on the available historic maps. The historic landscape is characterised as ‘post-medieval enclosures with medieval elements’.
Some of the earthworks had been transcribed as part of the Tamar Valley NMP project, these have been re-transcribed based on the recent lidar data.
The banks and ditches are interpreted as medieval to post-medieval field boundaries, that passed out of use prior to circa 1840.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6911 - Tamar Valley National Mapping Programme
• EDV8345 - Tamar/Lidar; A Single Source Approach to Landscape Survey and Socially Distanced Community Archaeology Area 1 (AI&M) (Ref: ACD2380)

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