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Summary

Irregularly shaped earthwork pits, visible on aerial photographs taken from the 1940s and on digital images visualised from photogrammetrically derived elevation data captured in 2014, are interpreted as post-medieval extractive pits that went out of use by the mid-19th century. They correspond to an area named 'Bloody Pits' on the Tithe Apportionment.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: ST30SW/153

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• EXTRACTIVE PIT (Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD to 1840 AD (Between))

Full description

1891, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV136371.

Field name recorded as `bloody pits' on tm (no 979). No earthworks shown on os 6" (1891) map (os).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV136373.

Des=chardstock tithe map and apportionment/(1838).

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

No features are depicted in this location.

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FP 2322-2323 11-APR-1947 (Aerial Photograph). SDV356127.

Irregularly shaped earthwork pits are visible.

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

19/8/1993 (simpson + blackmore) informed by landowners that all the quarries have been infilled in the last nine years. As no earthworks are shown here however it may be that the field acquired its name from its proximity to the other quarries rather than containing quarries itself, or they may have been infilled before the tm which records the field as being under arable cultivation.

Next Perspectives, 2014, Aerial Photography for Great Britain - Digital Elevation Data (Cartographic). SDV360176.

Irregularly shaped earthwork pits 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.

Irregularly shaped earthwork pits are visible on aerial photographs taken from the 1940s. They are similar in appearance to the remains of the numerous quarries depicted in adjacent fields on the historic maps, and they are interpreted as post-medieval extractive pits that went out of use by the mid-19th century. They correspond to an area named 'Bloody Pits' on the Tithe Apportionment and may have provided materials for the nearby limekilns depicted on the available historic maps. Although recorded in 1993 as having been infilled between 1984 and 1993, the remaining slight earthworks were clear enough to be transcribed from digital images visualised in simple local relief from photogrammetrically derived elevation data captured in 2014.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV136371	Migrated Record: 1891.
SDV136373	Migrated Record:
SDV324187	Archive - Survey: Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit. 1992 - 1993. Blackdown Hills Survey Archive. Blackdown Hills Survey Archive. A4 Unbound.
SDV325644	Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 1904 - 1906. Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. Map (Digital).
SDV356127	Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1947. RAF/CPE/UK/1974. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FP 2322-2323 11-APR-1947.
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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SDV360176	Cartographic: Next Perspectives. 2014. Aerial Photography for Great Britain - Digital Elevation Data. Aerial Photography for Great Britain Aerial Photographs. Digital. [Mapped feature: #93563 ]

Associated Monuments: none recorded

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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