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Summary

Pair of granite gateposts south of Higher Shapley Farm. Pair of granite gateposts with one slotted post opposite another with an L-slot.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68SE139
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 918954
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/189/1

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• GATE PIER (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD)

Full description

Greeves, T. A. P., 1983, Gateposts at Higher Shapley Farm (Worksheet). SDV242516.

(07/04/1983) SX 6830 8450 Pair of granite gateposts south of Higher Shapley Farm. Pair of granite gateposts with one slotted post opposite another with an L-slot.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit, S. Probert (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(13/06/1990) SX 68078458. Forty one slotted gate-posts in the in-bye of Higher Shapley Farm.
Twenty one posts contain rectangular slots (Type R see archive) and twenty have inverted L-shaped slots (type L). Two of the latter 2 and 3 also contain single rectangular slots.
Of the two posts recorded by Greeves (1983) at SX 68308450 only one 32 now remains.
For further description of gateway types see Worth (1953, 162-367).
An additional table of information on the gate posts is held in the NRHE archive.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8655 - Higher Shapley Farm, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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