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Summary

Second World War bomb craters are visible as earthwork pits on aerial photographs and on visualisations derived from lidar data captured in 2013 and 2019. The earthworks were recorded as part of the Tamar Valley NMP and Tamar/Lidar AI&M projects.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BOMB CRATER (World War II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946 - 1949, Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV342938.

Sub-circular earthwork pits are visible.

Environment Agency, 2000-2019, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) EA: Tamar Aerial Survey project area, LIDAR Environment Agency LAST RETURN 25-FEB-2019 (Cartographic). SDV363954.

Earthworks of two sub-circular pits are visible.

Cornwall Archaeological Unit, 2001-2002, Tamar Valley National Mapping Programme Transcriptions and Database Records, RAF CPE1890/F20/4338-9 (Interpretation). SDV346287.

Earthwork cut pits visible on aerial photographs have been interpreted as modern bomb craters.

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.

Earthworks of two sub-circular pits are visible.

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 photographs is not known.

Hegarty, C., Houghton, E., 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.

Earthworks of sub-circular pits are visible on 1940s RAF digital aerial photographs. Two of these earthwork pits to the east, which measure circa 9 metres in diameter, remain visible on visualisations derived from lidar data captured in 2013 and 2019.
They probably correspond with the transcriptions of two bomb craters recorded in this location during the Tamar Vallley NMP project. They have been re-transcribed during this survey from lidar data which has provided additional clarity and detail as well as improved spatial accuracy, but which was unavailable to the previous survey. The child record of these bomb craters (MDV80263) has not been individually amended and the attribute data of these transcriptions has been appended to this parent record.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

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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