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Summary

A roughly circular cropmark, visible on aerial photographs taken between 2002 and 2010, and possibly as a slight earthwork in 1996, is tentatively identified as the remains of one of two prehistoric barrows in this area.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BARROW (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1996, OS/96570, OS/96570 V 59-60 08-MAY-1996 (Aerial Photograph). SDV359489.

A raised area of vegetation, or possibly a slight earthwork, is visible.

Google, 2015, Google Earth Pro, EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 30-JUN-2006 ACCESSED 17-MAY-2016 (Aerial Photograph). SDV359580.

Two dark cropmarks are indistinctly visible.

Google, 2015, Google Earth Pro, EARTH.GOOGLE.COM XX-XXX-2002 ACCESSED 10-MAY-2016 (Aerial Photograph). SDV359580.

Two roughly circular pale cropmarks are visible.

Google, 2015, Google Earth Pro, EARTH.GOOGLE.COM XX-XXX-2010 ACCESSED 10-MAY-2016 (Aerial Photograph). SDV359580.

Two pale cropmarks are indistinctly visible.

Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R., 2016-2018, The Blackdown Hills AONB and East Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV359463.

One of two roughly circular pale cropmarks, circa 7.5 metres in maximum visible diameter, visible on aerial photographs taken in 2002 and less distinctly on aerial photographs taken in 2006 and 2010. The other is sited circa 50 metres to the south-west. Located on a hillslope overlooking the river valley to the west, their siting suggests that they could be the remains of prehistoric barrows. They were not identified on earlier available aerial photographs, although a very slight raised area visible on aerial photographs taken in 1996 could be vegetation that formed over the buried remains, or perhaps a slight earthwork. It may be that an episode of deeper ploughing, or incremental truncation from ploughing, brought the remains of buried mounds to the surface early in the 21st century.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV359463	Interpretation: Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R.. 2016-2018. The Blackdown Hills AONB and East Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project. Historic England Research Report. Digital.
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SDV359489	Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1996. OS/96570. Ordnance Survey. OS/96570 V 59-60 08-MAY-1996.
SDV359580	Aerial Photograph: Google. 2015. Google Earth Pro. Various. Digital. EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 30-JUN-2006 ACCESSED 17-MAY-2016. [Mapped feature: #74568 ]

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7508 - The Blackdown Hills AONB and East Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme (NMP) project (Ref: ACD1228)

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