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Summary

Curvilinear earthwork ditches and banks are visible on lidar data captured between 2004 and 2013. It is tentatively interpreted as a medieval or post-medieval holloway, or a post-medieval or 19th century water channel.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOLLOW WAY? (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))
• WATER CHANNEL? (Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

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

Curvilinear field boundaries south of Dexbeer mark the boundary between rough and cultivated ground.

Environment Agency, 2000-2019, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) EA: Tamar Aerial Survey project area, LIDAR Environment Agency LAST RETURN 19-DEC-2004 to 20-FEB-2005 (Cartographic). SDV363954.

Curvilinear earthwork banks and ditches are visible.

NERC, 2013, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) Tellus: Tamar Aerial Survey project area, LIDAR Tellus LAST RETURN 01-JUL-2013 to 31-AUG-2013 (Cartographic). SDV363955.

Curvilinear earthwork banks and ditches are visible.

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.

A curvilinear ditch approximately 2.5 metres wide, flanked by banks up to 3.5 metres in width, are visible as earthworks on images derived from lidar data captured between 2004 and 2013. They are located immediately south of, and run alongside, field boundaries depicted on the 19th century mapping, between cultivated land to the north and rough ground to the south. It follows the contour and could have been a water channel taken off the natural watercourse to the north-east. At its western end it appears to terminate at or meet a feature depicted on 19th century maps as an earthwork pit and mound at SS2928608927. This probable post-medieval or 19th century industrial feature may have required a water supply, and a linear feature immediately north of the pit is on the same alignment as the curvilinear earthwork, suggesting that it is contemporary. However the scale of the curvilinear earthworks might favour an interpretation as a medieval or post-medieval holloway, perhaps one that connects to a crossing of the watercourse to the north-east.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

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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