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| HER Number: | MDV115812 |
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| Name: | Drainage System and Catchmeadow south of Churchill, All Saints Parish |
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Summary
A probable post-medieval or early modern drainage system and catchmeadow is visible as earthwork ridges and ditches on aerial photographs taken from 1947 and images derived from lidar data captured between 1998 and 2014.
Location
| Grid Reference: | ST 299 015 |
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| Map Sheet: | ST20SE |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | All Saints |
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| District | East Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | AXMINSTER |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses: none recorded
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- CATCH MEADOW (Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Full description
Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.
No features are depicted in this exact location.
Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1975, RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1120-1121 11-APR-1947 (Aerial Photograph). SDV359646.
A linear earthwork ditch and two areas of narrow earthwork ridges are visible.
Environment Agency, 1998-2014, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution), LIDAR ST2901 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 30-SEP-2014 (Cartographic). SDV359177.
Parts of a linear earthwork ditch and two areas of narrow earthwork ridges are visible.
Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R., 2016-2018, The Blackdown Hills AONB and East Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV359463.
A narrow ditch, less than 2 metres in width, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs taken from 1947 and partly on images derived from lidar data captured between 1998 and 2014. Its origin appears to be the metalled road south of Churchill, although it then deviates from the track depicted on the historic maps to roughly follow the contour, dropping less than 5 metres in height over its more than 500 metre length. It seems most likely that this is a field gutter of a simple catchmeadow system. Two areas of possible 19th century ‘improvement’ ploughing are visible as narrow parallel earthwork ridges 4.5 metres apart just upslope of the gutter. These may have ‘fed’ the gutter with water which was them more widely distributed across the fields downslope.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV336179 | Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 1880-1899. First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map. First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. Map (Digital). |
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| SDV359177 | Cartographic: Environment Agency. 1998-2014. LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution). Environment Agency LiDAR data. Digital. LIDAR ST2901 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 30-SEP-2014. |
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| 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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| SDV359646 | Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1947. RAF/CPE/UK/1975. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). RAF/CPE/UK/1975 FP 1120-1121 11-APR-1947. [Mapped feature: #75158 ] |
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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)
| Date Last Edited: | Mar 20 2018 1:00PM |
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