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Summary

Earthworks associated with a former settlement site, field name of ‘Croft’ are visible as a series of earthwork banks and platforms on aerial photographs of 1948 onwards and on digital images derived from lidar data captured in 2016, at the intersection of the A303 and an un-numbered road, to the southeast of Knightshayne Farm, Yarcombe.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: ST21SW/41

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARMSTEAD (Early Medieval to XIX - 1066 AD to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

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

The earthworks partly correspond to field boundaries on this map.

Royal Air Force, 1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2491, RAF/CPE/UK/2491 RP 3185-86 11-MAR-1948 (Aerial Photograph). SDV359578.

A series of earthwork banks of the settlement site are visible.

Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit, 1992 - 1993, Blackdown Hills Survey Archive (Archive - Survey). SDV324187.

A group of three buildings called 'croft' in the enclosure award (no 716). Vis=-/3/1991 (simpson). A barn belonging to this farmstead still stands, orientated n-s, built out of local chert rubble stone. There are other earthworks and terraces in the area of the other buildings and stone walling fronting onto the road.(emafu). Vis=a tracing of this part of the enclosure award is in the 1992 blackdown hills archive.

Bluesky International, 2016, LiDAR DTM data (0.5m resolution) Blackdown Hills and East Devon AONBs: 3 transects, LIDAR ST2410 Bluesky International DTM 30-APR-2016 (Cartographic). SDV359714.

A series of earthwork of the settlement site are visible.

Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R., 2016-2018, The Blackdown Hills AONB and East Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV359463.

Earthworks associated with a former settlement site, field name of ‘Croft’ are visible as a series of earthwork banks and platforms on aerial photographs of 1948 onwards and on digital images derived from lidar data captured in 2016, at the intersection of the A303 and an un-numbered road, to the southeast of Knightshayne Farm, Yarcombe. The earthwork banks occupy an area of approximately 2.60 hectares of gentle to moderate northeast facing slope. They comprise a series of linear earthwork banks of former field boundaries of varying alignment, a number of which appear to have passed out of use by the time of the First Edition Ordnance Survey map of the 1880’s-90’s. Adjacent to the un-numbered road and the extant barn, which is associated with the former settlement, are two rectilinear shaped earthworks of possible former structures, a raised platform to the southeast and a possible cutting to the northwest, both approximately 25m long by 15m wide. The earthworks are possibly associated with a former settlement site recorded to the immediate north side of the road (MDV38427).

Sources / Further Reading

SDV324187	Archive - Survey: Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit. 1992 - 1993. Blackdown Hills Survey Archive. Blackdown Hills Survey Archive. A4 Unbound.
SDV336179	Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 1880-1899. First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map. First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. Map (Digital).
SDV359463	Interpretation: Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R.. 2016-2018. The Blackdown Hills AONB and East Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project. Historic England Research Report. Digital.
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SDV359578	Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1948. RAF/CPE/UK/2491. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). RAF/CPE/UK/2491 RP 3185-86 11-MAR-1948.
SDV359714	Cartographic: Bluesky International. 2016. LiDAR DTM data (0.5m resolution) Blackdown Hills and East Devon AONBs: 3 transects. Not applicable. Digital. LIDAR ST2410 Bluesky International DTM 30-APR-2016. [Mapped feature: #92921 ]

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7508 - The Blackdown Hills AONB and East Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme (NMP) project (Ref: ACD1228)

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