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Summary

Several linear and curvilinear earthwork banks and ditches are visible on aerial photographs taken from 2000 onwards and on images derived from lidar data captured in 2016. They are interpreted as a medieval hollow way with contemporary and later relict field boundaries that had gone out of use by the mid-19th century.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD BOUNDARY (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))
• HOLLOW WAY (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD (Between))

Full description

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

This plot is depicted as orchard.

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

This plot is depicted as orchard.

Ordnance Survey, 2000, OS/00976, OS/00976 V 0210-0211 19-MAR-2000 (Aerial Photograph). SDV359662.

Several linear and curvilinear earthwork banks and ditches are visible.

Bluesky International, 2016, LiDAR DTM data (0.5m resolution) Blackdown Hills and East Devon AONBs: 3 transects, LIDAR SY2099 Bluesky International DTM 24 & 30-APR-2016 (Cartographic). SDV359714.

Several linear and 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.

A curvilinear earthwork ditch is visible on aerial photographs taken from 2000 onwards and on images derived from lidar data captured in 2016. Its northern end seems to terminate at Widworthy Barton, and it is interpreted as the relict remains of a medieval hollow way that predated the establishment of the orchard (MDV118270). A narrower earthwork bank on its northern side may be the remains of a boundary. Several adjacent linear and curvilinear earthwork banks and ditches may be contemporary, perhaps associated with the medieval settlement at Widworthy (MDV18790). However one of the ditches appears to cut through the hollow way so may be of a later phase, maybe associated with the ‘Old Marl Pit’ depicted on the late-19th century mapping at which one branch of one of the ditches terminates.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV336179	Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 1880-1899. First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map. First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. Map (Digital).
SDV349431	Cartographic: Devon County Council. 1838-1848. Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848. Digitised Tithe Map. Digital.
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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SDV359662	Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 2000. OS/00976. Ordnance Survey. Photograph (Paper). OS/00976 V 0210-0211 19-MAR-2000.
SDV359714	Cartographic: Bluesky International. 2016. LiDAR DTM data (0.5m resolution) Blackdown Hills and East Devon AONBs: 3 transects. Not applicable. Digital. LIDAR SY2099 Bluesky International DTM 24 & 30-APR-2016. [Mapped feature: #77552 ]

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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