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Summary

Field system situated within a scheduled cairnfield. Survives as an 80m long, 1.6m wide and 0.4m high lynchet following the contour and a 64m long, 2m wide and 0.3m high boundary bank leading downslope at right angles from the lynchet. Probably originally more extensive and now survives largely as a buried feature.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1007659: Cairnfield and associated earthworks on the north eastern slope of White Hill

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58SW/91/9
• Old SAM Ref: 22347(P)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD SYSTEM (Late Neolithic to Late Iron Age - 3000 BC to 42 AD)

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 130969 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(20/04/1993) Field system situated within a cairnfield. Survives as an 80m long, 1.6m wide and 0.4m high lynchet following the contour and a 64m long, 2m wide and 0.3m high boundary bank leading downslope at right angles from the lynchet. Probably originally more extensive and now survives largely as a buried feature.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 219 (Monograph). SDV219155.

English Heritage, 2015, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV357602.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7368 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area, Peter Tavy (1998)
• EDV6663 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV6664 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV6665 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV8141 - Condition survey of the Willsworthy Training Area

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