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Summary

A field boundary of possible medieval to 19th century date is visible as an earthwork bank on aerial photographs of 1971 on the gentle south-west facing slopes of a plateau to the north-east of Lower Langage Farm.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD BOUNDARY (Early Medieval to XIX - 1066 AD to 1840 AD (Between))

Full description

South West Heritage Trust, 1838-1848, Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments (Cartographic). SDV359954.

The visible earthworks do not correspond with any boundary depicted on the Tithe Map for Plympton St Mary.

Meridian Airmaps Limited, 1971, MAL/71005 (Aerial Photograph). SDV363166.

A curvilinear bank is visible as an earthwork.

Environment Agency, 1998-2017, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) EA: South Devon Coast to Dartmoor, LIDAR SX5756 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 31-MAY-2017 (Cartographic). SDV361470.

The hillside has been heavily landscaped.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 1999-2017, Pan Government Agreement Aerial Photographs, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery SX5756 03-MAY-2007 (Aerial Photograph). SDV363087.

An access track closely follows the southern edge of the relict bank and landscaping has levelled the eastern end.

Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2019-2020, The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey. Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (AI&M, formerly NMP) (Interpretation). SDV362982.

A bank is visible on aerial photographs of 1971 as an earthwork circa 4m wide and 150m long on the gentle south-west facing slopes of a plateau to the north-east of Lower Langage Farm.
The visible earthwork does not correspond with any boundary depicted on the Tithe Map for Plympton St Mary but is in keeping with the character of the surrounding field pattern, which has been characterised as medieval enclosure based on strip fields.
The earthwork is interpreted as evidence of a field boundary of possible medieval to 19th century date that was removed prior to circa 1840.
The bank had probably been partly levelled by a works access track by May 2007, which ran closely alongside the southern edge of the relict bank. Probably for this reason the bank was not included within the area of a geophysical survey nor targeted by subsequent trench evaluation in this plot (see MDV115067, SDV359587 and SDV359573).
The bank has probably been destroyed by subsequent landscaping for a solar farm.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8098 - The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping (formerly NMP) Survey, Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (Ref: ACD2040)

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