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Summary

An oval mound surrounded by a ditch and abutting ditch evidence of a former field boundary is visible as earthworks on visualisations derived from lidar data captured in 2013. It is located on a gentle west facing slope to the immediate south of Lympscott Farm. The mound is likely a result of land management or formal landscaping associated with the farmstead.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• DITCH (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))
• MOUND (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))
• GARDEN FEATURE? (Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

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

The earthworks do not correspond with any features depicted. The abutting east-west orientated ditch corresponds with a field boundary.

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

The earthworks do not correspond with any features depicted.

Environment Agency, 2000-2019, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) EA: Tamar Aerial Survey project area, LIDAR Environment Agency LAST RETURN 14-MAR-2013 (Cartographic). SDV363954.

An oval mound and surrounding ditch earthworks are visible.

Cornwall Archaeological Unit, 2001-2002, Tamar Valley National Mapping Programme Transcriptions and Database Records (Interpretation). SDV346287.

A roughly oval bank was transcribed in this location as part of the Tamar Valley NMP survey. Further details from the survey database, including aerial photograph references and interpretive text, are awaiting accessioning.

Hegarty, C., Houghton, E., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2020-2021, Tamar/Lidar; A Single Source Approach to Landscape Survey and Socially Distanced Community Archaeology Area 2 (Culture Recovery Fund project) (Interpretation). SDV364011.

An oval mound circa 22 metres in width is surrounded by a ditch up to 15 metres in width are both visible as earthworks on visualisations derived from lidar data. The ditch adjoins an east-west aligned former field boundary also evidenced as a ditch earthwork (MDV129579).
The earthworks are situated immediately to the south of Lympscott Farm within an area characterised as former medieval enclosures based on strip fields. Lympscott Farm is recorded to have medieval origins (MDV16843). The mound and surrounding ditch do not correspond with any features depicted on the available 19th century historic maps. The adjoining east-west orientated ditch corresponds with a field boundary on the Tithe Map which passed out of use by circa 1880.
The earthworks are interpreted as associated with the farmstead and therefore of medieval to post-medieval origin. It is possible they could relate to a small former field system or could be part of formal landscaping, for example a tree mound.

Understanding Landscapes Project, 2020-2021, University of Exeter Understanding Landscapes Project - Volunteer data, 790.2 (Interpretation). SDV363949.

Earthwork; high spot noted enclosed by existing identified bank - largely circular and could be a barrow. A bank is annotated by the Cornwall NMP Ss 2907 1282

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8356 - Tamar/Lidar; A Single Source Approach to Landscape Survey and Socially Distanced Community Archaeology Area 2 (Culture Recovery Fund) (Ref: ACD2424)

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