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Summary

Two curvilinear ditched banks, probably the remains of field boundaries of medieval date, were visible on aerial photographs of the 1940s and digital images derived from lidar data as earthworks on the north-east facing slopes south of Dalwood Primary School.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD BOUNDARY (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD (Between))

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1130 11-APR-1947 (Aerial Photograph). SDV359646.

Two curvilinear banks with slight ditches were visible. Map object based partly on this source.

Ordnance Survey, 1996, OS/96569, LIDAR ST2400 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 30-SEP-2014 (Aerial Photograph). SDV359324.

Two curvilinear banks with slight ditches were visible. Map object based partly on this source.

Turner, S.C., 2005 - 2006, Devon Historic Landscape Characterisation Mapping (Cartographic). SDV349122.

This area was probably first enclosed with hedge-banks during the later middle ages. The curving form of the hedge-banks suggests that earlier it may have been farmed as open strip-fields

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

Two curvilinear banks 5 to 6 metres wide, flanked by narrower ditches on their north-eastern sides were visible on aerial photographs of the 1940s as slight earthworks and cropmarks on the north-east facing slopes south of Dalwood Primary School.
The banks do not correspond with any boundaries depicted on the Tithe Map for Dalwood and were therefore probably removed prior to the 1840s. They fall within a field pattern characterised as probably first enclosed with hedge banks based on earlier strip field cultivation in the later medieval period. The relict banks have therefore been interpreted as probably the remains of field boundaries of medieval date. The banks remain clearly visible on digital images derived from lidar data captured between 1998 and 2014 and therefore probably survives as an earthwork.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV349122	Cartographic: Turner, S.C.. 2005 - 2006. Devon Historic Landscape Characterisation Mapping. Digital.
SDV359324	Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1996. OS/96569. Ordnance Survey Aerial Photograph. LIDAR ST2400 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 30-SEP-2014.
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.
	Linked documents:2
SDV359646	Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1947. RAF/CPE/UK/1975. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1130 11-APR-1947.

Associated Monuments: none recorded

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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