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HER Number: | MDV132651 |
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Name: | Enclosure 350m east-south-east of Narracott Farm |
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Summary
Possible prehistoric enclosure visible on 2020 Google Earth image. Site is visible as a dark cropmark, roughly circular, measuring 53m east-west by 47 north-south.
Location
Grid Reference: | SX 760 914 |
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Map Sheet: | SX79SE |
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Admin Area | Dartmoor National Park |
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Civil Parish | Drewsteignton |
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District | West Devon |
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Ecclesiastical Parish | DREWSTEIGNTON |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses: none recorded
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- SUB CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE (Constructed, Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC? (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
Full description
Unknown, 2020, Google Earth image, Accesed 05/04/2022 (Aerial Photograph). SDV364796.
Possible enclosure visible on aerial photograph.
Kaye, S., 2022, Possible features noted in Drewsteignton (Correspondence). SDV364797.
Possible prehistoric enclosure c.1 km south-south-west of Crockernwell identified from Google Earth 2020 aerial photograph; site visible as a dark cropmark.
The enclosure is c. 0.42 km east of Narracott House, partly on a level ridge overlooking a stream to the south. The enclosure is made of two components: a northern set of three, roughly straight-sided, cropmark ditches forming an upside down bowl. The northern side is c. 35 m long and is flanked either side by ditches c. 30 m long. The open, southern end of this inverted bowl structure is closed by a single curved (almost semi-circular) c. 66 m long ditch. The northern inverted bowl is on level ground while the southern curved ditch is on a slope down to the stream to the south (hidden by trees in the image above). Maximum elevation in the north is c.152 m sloping southwards down to c.149 m. The enclosure length N-S is c.148 m, 150 m E-W and encloses an area of c.0.2 hectares. The ditch cropmark width is c. 2.5 m.
Sources / Further Reading
Associated Monuments
MDV26741 | Related to: Lost field boundaries north of Preston, Drewsteignton (Monument) |
MDV93822 | Related to: Narracott Farm, Drewsteignton (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
Date Last Edited: | Apr 5 2022 11:09AM |
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