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Summary

Linear and curvilinear banks were visible on digital images derived from lidar data captured in 2016 as low earthworks on the north-east facing slopes overlooking Birch Oak Farm from the south, Yarcombe parish.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• TRACKWAY (Early Medieval to XIX - 1066 AD to 1880 AD (Between))

Full description

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

The visible earthworks did not correspond with any depicted boundaries.

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

Curvilinear earthwork banks were visible.

Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R., 2016-2018, The Blackdown Hills AONB and East Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV359463.

Roughly parallel linear and curvilinear banks up to 5 metres wide were visible on digital images derived from lidar data captured in 2016 as low earthworks on the north-east facing slopes overlooking Birch Oak Farm, Yarcombe parish from the south.
The earthworks did not correspond with any features depicted on the 19th century mapping available to the survey. Although falling largely within a field pattern that has been characterised as being post-medieval enclosure, the relict banks were more closely in keeping with the character of probably earlier curvilinear boundaries recorded by the survey immediately to the north, which have been interpreted as boundaries derived from strip fields of medieval date. The parallel and slightly braided nature of the relict earthworks recorded here are more in keeping with a routeway, and have been interpreted as the remains of a former trackway probably of medieval origin.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV336179	Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 1880-1899. First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map. First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. 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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SDV359714	Cartographic: Bluesky International. 2016. LiDAR DTM data (0.5m resolution) Blackdown Hills and East Devon AONBs: 3 transects. Not applicable. Digital. [Mapped feature: #78440 ]

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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