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Summary

Cropmark ditches of an enclosure with associated features of uncertain, but potential prehistoric, date are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1978, to the east of Blackworthy, Northlew.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
• ENCLOSURE? (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2200 BC to 42 AD (Between))

Full description

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

Transcriptions of ditches correspond to the grid reference for PRN167600.

Young, A. & Turner, S., 2005-2006, North Devon/Winkleigh Biomass Plant National Mapping Programme (NMP) project database records, 167600 (Interpretation). SDV358473.

An oval, univallate enclosure, 12.5m x 8m, with a possible entrance in the south west, is visible as a cropmark ditch on aerial photographs (p1) and was digitally plotted as part of the National Mapping Programme. The enclosure appears to appended, at its north western end, to a curving cropmark ditch , 87m long. The features lie within an area classed as medieval enclosures based on strip fields in the Historic Landscape Characterisation for Devon.
Photograph reference:
1. OS 78098 706 18-JUN-1978

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7455 - Winkleigh Biomass Plant National Mapping Programme

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