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Summary

Dark linear cropmarks which have possibly formed over the buried ditches of relict field boundaries of medieval or post-medieval date are visible on vertical and oblique aerial photographs taken in 1984. The field boundaries had passed out of use by the mid-19th century.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX76SE/79

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD BOUNDARY (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))
• (Former Type) LINEAR FEATURE (XVIII to XXI - 1751 AD to 2009 AD (Between))

Full description

Devon County Council, Devon Air Photograph Transcriptions (Cartographic). SDV344181.

Linear features have been transcribed.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV154846.

Linear feature running from sx75016413 to sx75066389, recorded as cropmark july 1984 by f. Griffith. No field boundary shown on os 6" on its course.

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV154848.

Aph=dap/bt 10a,11,12(11/7/1984).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV154849.

Des=dprfp (1987).

DPRFP, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV262469.

Boundary marked on os 6" (1904) map (os)vis=3/9/1987 (robinson) cropmarks confirmed as old field boundaries. Recorded on rattery tm (dprfp).

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

The cropmarks do not correspond with any linear features in this location.

Devon County Council, 1984, DAP 3541, DAP 3541/10A 11-JUL-1984 (BT) (Aerial Photograph). SDV361900.

Dark linear cropmarks are visible.

Ordnance Survey, 1984, OS/84170, OS/84170 V 088-089 04-JUL-1984 (Aerial Photograph). SDV352491.

Dark linear cropmarks are visible.

Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2019-2020, The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey. Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (AI&M, formerly NMP) (Interpretation). SDV362982.

Dark linear cropmarks, interpreted as having formed over buried ditches circa 2m wide and north to south and east to west aligned, are visible on vertical and oblique aerial photographs taken in 1984. The cropmarks do not correspond with any linear features shown on the mid-19th century Parish Tithe Map, or on later available historic maps, but are in keeping with the surrounding historic field pattern, which is characterised as medieval enclosures based on strip fields. The cropmarks are therefore interpreted as relict field boundaries of medieval or post-medieval date which had passed out of use by the mid-19th century. Other cropmarks visible in this location in 1984 correspond with field boundaries on historic maps and have therefore not been transcribed or have been included within this monument polygon.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8098 - The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping (formerly NMP) Survey, Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (Ref: ACD2040)

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