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Summary

Dark cropmarks which have possibly formed over the buried ditches of a double-ditched rectilinear enclosure of potential late prehistoric or Roman date are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1984.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• DOUBLE DITCHED ENCLOSURE (Early Iron Age to Roman - 700 BC to 409 AD (Between))
• RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Early Iron Age to Roman - 700 BC to 409 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1984, OS/84170, OS/84170 V 090-091 04-JUL-1984 (Aerial Photograph). SDV352491.

Dark curvilinear cropmarks are visible.

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.

Dark curvilinear cropmarks, interpreted as having formed over buried ditches circa 2.5m wide, are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1984. The cropmarks define two circuits of a largely complete rectilinear enclosure which measures circa 80m long by 70m wide, with the circuits spaced circa 4m apart. Two curvilinear cropmark features which extend from the southeast corner of the enclosure and across its middle may represent associated features. The morphology of the cropmarks suggests a late prehistoric or Roman date.

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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