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Summary

Curving field boundaries both extant and as earthworks are visible on aerial photographs and visualisations derived from lidar data captured in 2013 to the east and north of Foghanger. They are interpreted as medieval field boundaries that formed a strip field system.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• STRIP FIELD (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD (Between))

Full description

Devon County Council, 1838-1848, Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848 (Cartographic). SDV349431.

The earthworks do not correspond with any depicted features.

Turner, S.C., 2005 - 2006, Devon Historic Landscape Characterisation Mapping (Cartographic). SDV349122.

This area was probably first enclosed with hedge-banks during the later middle ages. The curving form of the hedge-banks suggests that earlier it may have been farmed as open strip-fields.

NERC, 2013, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) Tellus: Tamar Aerial Survey project area, LIDAR Tellus LAST RETURN 01-JUL-2013 to 31-AUG-2013 (Cartographic). SDV363955.

Several curvilinear banks and ditches are visible as earthworks.

Ordnance Survey, 2018, MasterMap 2018 (Cartographic). SDV360652.

The curving field boundaries of former medieval strip fields are still extant to the east and north of Foghanger.

Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2020-2021, Tamar/Lidar; A Single Source Approach to Landscape Survey and Socially Distanced Community Archaeology Area 1 (AI&M project) (Interpretation). SDV363945.

Several curvilinear banks and ditches are visible as earthworks on visualisations derived from lidar data captured in 2013. The earthworks are situated across several south-east facing fields east and north of Foghanger.
The earthworks do not correspond to any features depicted on the available historic maps, however they mostly orientated east to west and in parallel with surrounding extant and depicted field boundaries. Several earthwork ditches are orientated north to south, one of which aligns with depicted field boundaries, and one of which bisects a plot across its centre and is inconsistent with its surrounding field pattern. The historic landscape is characterised as medieval enclosures based on strip fields.
The earthworks are interpreted as field boundaries of medieval origin that formed a strip field system and that passed out of use prior to circa 1840. One of the field boundaries may be post-medieval in origin.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8345 - Tamar/Lidar; A Single Source Approach to Landscape Survey and Socially Distanced Community Archaeology Area 1 (AI&M) (Ref: ACD2380)

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