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Summary

A series of earthwork ditches and banks interpreted as former medieval or post-medieval field boundaries are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1946 and 1947, to the southeast of Kennydown Farm, Wembworthy.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• 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 banks and ditches correspond to the grid reference for PRN167293.

Young, A. & Turner, S., 2005-2006, North Devon/Winkleigh Biomass Plant National Mapping Programme (NMP) project database records, PRN167293 (Interpretation). SDV358473.

A series of linear ditched and banked features are earthworks on aerial photographs (p1-2) to the south of Kennydown Farm. These features may be fragments of a medieval or post medieval field system and enclosure. They were digitally plotted during the National Mapping Programme. The features are sited within an area described as medieval enclosures based on strip fields in the Historic Landscape Characterisation for Devon.
Photograph references:
1. RAF CPE/UK/2082 4212-1 19-MAY-1947
2. RAF 3G/TUD/UK/159 PT1 5071-2 19-APR-1946

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7455 - Winkleigh Biomass Plant National Mapping Programme

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