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Summary

A ring ditch of probable later prehistoric to Roman date was visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark on a level spur to the south-east of Haymans Farm, Burrow. The ring ditch might be evidence of a round barrow of Bronze Age date.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Prehistoric ring ditch south east of Haymans Farm

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX99NE/81

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• RING DITCH (Early Bronze Age to Roman - 2200 BC to 409 AD (Between))
• ROUND BARROW? (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

AP, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV134934.

Small annular dark mark diam c 15m. Recorded from the air as a cropmark by f. Griffith in 1989 (ap).

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV134936.

Aph=dap/od 4,5/(12/7/1989).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV134937.

Des=dprfp (1994) and photo z4-6.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV134938.

Des=dprfp (1989) + photo bc26.27.

DPRFP, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV262469.

Vis=23/6/1994 (robinson) site lies in level valley field. Coincides with dry patch in crop and could be a low mound (dprfp).

Devon County Council, 1989, DAP 6772, DAP 6772/04-05 12-JUL-1989 (Aerial Photograph). SDV358870.

A ring ditch was visible.

Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R., 2014-2015, East and Mid Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV356883.

A ring ditch of probable later prehistoric to Roman date was visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark on a level spur to the south-east of Haymans Farm, Burrow. The cropmark is somewhat variable in its clarity and definition, but measures up to approximately 3 metres wide and defined a roughly circular area just over 12 metres in diameter. A gap in the eastern edge of the transcribed cropmark corresponds with an area of darker agricultural cropmark obscuring the archaeological feature, which probably continues as a buried ditch, and does not indicate an interpreted entrance. It is difficult to identify the date and function of ring ditches from cropmark evidence alone, but it might be evidence of a round barrow of Bronze Age date.
Many of the aerial photographs consulted by the survey are copies of DAPs held by the Historic England Archive. In some cases these have been recorded as separate sources. This is because variations in the way the prints have been processed could result in images on which archaeological features are visible to a greater or lesser degree.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV134934	Migrated Record: AP.
SDV134936	Aerial Photograph:
SDV134937	Migrated Record:
SDV134938	Migrated Record:
SDV262469	Migrated Record: DPRFP.
SDV356883	Interpretation: Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R.. 2014-2015. East and Mid Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project. AC Archaeology Report. Digital.
	Linked documents:1
SDV358870	Aerial Photograph: Devon County Council. 1989. DAP 6772. Devon Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). DAP 6772/04-05 12-JUL-1989. [Mapped feature: #94771 ]

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6530 - The East and Mid-Devon Rivers Catchment NMP project (Ref: ACD613)

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