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Summary

Several curvilinear earthwork banks and ditches, visible on lidar data captured in 2007 and 2013, are interpreted as relict medieval or post-medieval field boundaries that went out of use by the mid-19th century.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD BOUNDARY (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

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

Orchard is depicted in plots 86 and 87, north and south of Wonwood Farm, with a small plot 88 recorded as garden and larger plot 84 to the south-east that is named 'pit meadow'.

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

Small plots of land numbered 345 (depicted as orchard), 422 and 347 are depicted around Wonwood Farm.

Environment Agency, 2000-2019, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) EA: Tamar Aerial Survey project area, LIDAR Environment Agency LAST RETURN 03-FEB-2007 (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., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2020-2021, Tamar/Lidar; A Single Source Approach to Landscape Survey and Socially Distanced Community Archaeology Area 1 (AI&M project) (Interpretation). SDV363945.

Several curvilinear earthwork banks and ditches, 2 to 4 metres wide, are visible on images derived from lidar data captured in 2007 and 2013, in the fields around Wonwood Farm. Banks and one ditch are visible in the area north-east of the farm, depicted as orchard on the Tithe map, and are interpreted as relict field boundaries that pre-date the mid-19th century. Two ditches are located in a plot of land to the south-east, named Pit Meadow on the tithe apportionment. These are roughly parallel to field boundaries depicted on the Tithe map, though it is possible that the broadest earthwork could have been a trackway.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8345 - Tamar/Lidar; A Single Source Approach to Landscape Survey and Socially Distanced Community Archaeology Area 1 (AI&M) (Ref: ACD2380)

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