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Summary

Cropmark ditches and a bank of a potential prehistoric enclosure are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1948, to the southwest of Howard's Mill, King's Nympton.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthworks and cropmarks of prehistoric Enclosure south-west of Howard's Mill

Other References/Statuses

• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• 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 and a bank correspond to the grid reference for PRN167694 & PRN167693.

Young, A. & Turner, S., 2005-2006, North Devon/Winkleigh Biomass Plant National Mapping Programme (NMP) project database records, 167693 (Interpretation). SDV358473.

The remains of a rectilinear enclosure consisting of an external ditch and internal bank are visible on aerial photographs (p1). The enclosure is 60m long and at least 40m wide; it is cut along its east edge by a modern field boundary. It has been digitally plotted as part of the National Mapping Programme.
Photograph reference:
1. RAF CPE/UK 2521 4040-3 22-MAR-1948

Young, A. & Turner, S., 2005-2006, North Devon/Winkleigh Biomass Plant National Mapping Programme (NMP) project database records, PRN167694 (Interpretation). SDV358473.

A rectilinear single ditched enclosure is visible on aerial photographs (p1). It is 24m wide and at least 19m long; it is cut along its west edge by a modern field boundary and its full extent is unclear. The enclosure has been digitally plotted as part of the National Mapping Programme.

Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2017-2018, Backlog recording of the Winkleigh National Mapping Programme Survey (Personal Comment). SDV360588.

The cropmarks of this possible enclosure were originally recorded by Young & Turner as two separate monuments (PRN167693 & PRN167694). It seems probable that the cropmarks represent part of the same feature and so have instead been recorded as a single monument.
The photograph reference for both of these records is:
1. RAF CPE/UK 2521 4040-3 22-MAR-1948

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7455 - Winkleigh Biomass Plant National Mapping Programme

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