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Summary

Earthworks of possible extraction pits of uncertain date are visible as a series of slight earthwork pits and mounds on digital images derived from lidar data captured in 2016, to the northeast of Goodleigh. The subtle earthworks, which may equally be of natural origin, are not clearly visible on aerial photographs or other digital images made available to the survey.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• NATURAL FEATURE? (Unknown date)
• EXTRACTIVE PIT? (Early Iron Age to Roman - 700 BC to 409 AD (Between))

Full description

Bluesky International, 2016, LiDAR DTM data (0.5m resolution) Blackdown Hills and East Devon AONBs: 3 transects, LIDAR ST1210 Bluesky International DTM 05-MAY-2016 (Cartographic). SDV359714.

Earthworks of possible extractive pits 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.

Earthworks of possible extractive pits of uncertain date are visible as a series of slight earthwork pits and mounds on digital images derived from lidar data captured in 2016, to the northeast of Goodleigh. The cluster of earthworks is northwest to southeast aligned and occupies an area of approximately 1.23 hectares of steep southwest facing slope. The nature of these earthworks should be viewed with caution and it is equally likely they are the result of natural processes, such as slumping, on the steep hillside slopes. They have nonetheless been recorded given their similarity with other, albeit more convincing, earthworks recorded during this survey from lidar images, such as the possible Iron Age to Roman open cast mines to the northwest MDV115817. Given their indistinct nature, it was not possible to transcribe individual features. Instead, the approximate limit of these earthworks was defined by an extent of area polygon. The subtle earthworks are not clearly visible on aerial photographs or other digital images made available to the survey.

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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SDV359714	Cartographic: Bluesky International. 2016. LiDAR DTM data (0.5m resolution) Blackdown Hills and East Devon AONBs: 3 transects. Not applicable. Digital. LIDAR ST1210 Bluesky International DTM 05-MAY-2016. [Mapped feature: #75317 ]

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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