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| HER Number: | MDV118888 |
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| Name: | Ring Ditch, west of Hill Cottage, Hemyock |
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Summary
Cropmarks which have possibly formed over an infilled ditch of a prehistoric ring ditch are visible on vertical aerial photographs of 1950, on gentle southwest facing slopes to the west of Hill Cottage, Hemyock.
Location
| Grid Reference: | ST 120 157 |
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| Map Sheet: | ST11NW |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Hemyock |
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| District | Mid Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | HEMYOCK |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses: none recorded
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- NON ANTIQUITY? (Unknown date)
- RING DITCH (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2200 BC to 42 AD (Between))
Full description
Royal Air Force, 1950, RAF/541/534, RAF/541/534 RS 4086-87 30-MAY-1950 (Aerial Photograph). SDV357615.
Cropmarks of a possible infilled ditch 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.
Cropmarks which have possibly formed over an infilled ditch of a prehistoric ring ditch are visible on vertical aerial photographs of 1950, on gentle southwest facing slopes to the west of Hill Cottage, Hemyock. The dark cropmarks form an incomplete ring approximately 18m in diameter. The cropmarks, which should be viewed with some degree of caution, were not visible on other available aerial photographs and digital images made available to this survey.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV357615 | Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1950. RAF/541/534. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). RAF/541/534 RS 4086-87 30-MAY-1950. [Mapped feature: #78163 ] |
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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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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 1:33PM |
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