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Summary

A curvilinear earthwork bank, possibly a medieval field boundary or a 19th or early 20th century drainage feature, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 1946 crossing the contours of the south-east facing slope south-west of Trehele Farm, Modbury. The bank is not identifiable on visualisations derived from lidar data captured in 2019 and has probably been levelled.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD BOUNDARY (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD (Between))
• (Alternate Type) DRAIN (XIX to Mid 20th Century - 1801 AD to 1946 AD (Between))

Full description

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

The visible earthwork does not correspond with any feature depicted on the Tithe Map for Modbury.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, Devon County Council RAF/CPE/UK/1890 FS 2099-2100 10-DEC-1946 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

A bank is visible as an earthwork.

Environment Agency, 2019, National Lidar Programme, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM 25-FEB-2019 (Cartographic). SDV363691.

The bank is not identifiable on visualisations derived from lidar data captured in 2019.

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 curvilinear earthwork bank circa 4m wide and 155m long is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 1946 crossing the contours of the south-east facing slope south-west of Trehele Farm, Modbury.
The visible earthwork does not correspond with any feature depicted on the Tithe Map for Modbury and is of different character to the more regular field boundaries depicted immediately to the north-east and particularly the south-west.
It is possible that the bank is a former field boundary of medieval date, superseded by a more regular post-medieval field pattern.
Alternatively, it could be a drainage feature constructed to direct water from springs rising here and to the north to the watercourse below.
The bank is not identifiable on visualisations derived from lidar data captured in 2019 and has probably been levelled.

Ordnance Survey, 2020, MasterMap 2020 (Cartographic). SDV363413.

A spring is noted to the north.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

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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