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Summary

Relict field boundaries, and a possible trackway, of probable medieval or post-medieval date are visible as curvilinear earthwork banks and ditches on aerial photographs taken from 2000 onwards and images derived from lidar data captured between 1998 and 2014.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD BOUNDARY (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))
• TRACKWAY? (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

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

No field boundaries are depicted in these exact locations.

Environment Agency, 1998-2014, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution), LIDAR ST2901 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 30-SEP-2014 (Cartographic). SDV359177.

Several curvilinear earthwork banks and ditches are visible.

Ordnance Survey, 2000, OS/00973, OS/00973 V 0003-0004 19-MAR-2000 (Aerial Photograph). SDV359480.

Curvilinear earthwork banks and ditches 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.

Several curvilinear earthwork banks and ditches, between 4 and 6 metres in width, are visible on aerial photographs taken from 2000 onwards and on images derived from lidar data captured between 1998 and 2014. Two segments appear to be contiguous but manifest in different ways, one as a wide bank and the other as a slightly narrower ditch. The ditched feature may be the remains of a trackway, perhaps one that followed a field boundary, and this starts and ends at two pronounced changes of direction of extant field boundaries depicted on the Tithe map. Of the two banks to the east, one partly corresponds to boundaries depicted on the historic mapping. The field pattern has been characterised as medieval and post-medieval enclosures, and the irregular layout suggests that at least those on the west had a medieval origin.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV349431	Cartographic: Devon County Council. 1838-1848. Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848. Digitised Tithe Map. Digital.
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. [Mapped feature: #75165 ]
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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SDV359480	Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 2000. OS/00973. Ordnance Survey. Photograph (Paper). OS/00973 V 0003-0004 19-MAR-2000.

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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