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Summary

A single curvilinear cropmark ditch interpreted as a medieval to post-medieval field boundary or a possible prehistoric enclosure is visible on aerial photographs taken in 1947, to the northeast of The Bees, Beaworthy.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSURE? (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2200 BC to 42 AD (Between))
• FIELD BOUNDARY (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

Young, A., 2005, Transcriptions from Winkleigh Biomass Plant National Mapping Programme (NMP) project (Cartographic). SDV321540.

Transcriptions of a ditch correspond to the grid reference for PRN167217.

Young, A. & Turner, S., 2005-2006, North Devon/Winkleigh Biomass Plant National Mapping Programme (NMP) project database records, PRN167217 (Interpretation). SDV358473.

A curved, single ditch linear feature is visible on aerial photographs (p1). It is roughly 100m long, and creates a triangular enclosure as it butts up against two extant hedges in the SW corner of a field. The feature is sited within an area described as ‘Post-medieval enclosures' in Devon’s Historic Landscape Characterisation, and is likely to be a field boundary of post-medieval origin. Its curved shape however suggests the possibility that it is the remains of a large enclosure, later cut by the aforementioned field boundaries. It has been digitally plotted as part of the National Mapping Programme.
Photograph reference:
1. RAF CPE/UK/1995/1211-4 13-APR-1947

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7455 - Winkleigh Biomass Plant National Mapping Programme

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