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Summary

Linear anomaly likely to represent a relatively recent service trench, however its proximity and position in relation to a similar anomaly cannot rule out archaeological origin.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ARCHAEOLOGICAL FEATURE? (Unknown date)

Full description

Dean, R., 2015, An Archaeological Gradiometer Survey: Land to the Northwest of Forches Cross, Newton Abbot, Devon (Report - Geophysical Survey). SDV358153.

Geophysical survey undertaken as part of a forthcoming planning application. Sixty-seven magnetic anomaly groups were identified as relating to possible archaeological deposits or features. The majority are most likely to relate to more than one phase of former field boundaries and other enclosures.

Group 42 is most likely to represent a relatively recent service ditch although it does run parallel with group 48 and so an archaeological origin cannot be rejected without further archaeological investigation.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6731 - Gradiometer Survey: Land to the northwest of Forches Cross (Ref: 150323)

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