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Summary

Ruined building in a triangular enclosure attached to the chudleigh side of the kenn/chudleigh parish boundary, which is also the boundary wall of the harcombe estate. No evidence of the structure or associated enclosures were visible on aerial imagery. The site is obscured by dense tree cover on digital images derived from aerial photographs of 1999 onwards

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX98SW/105

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• SHRUNKEN VILLAGE (Unknown date)

Full description

BY 0.50 THICK, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV307361.

Building appears to have faced se. Ne wall is 9.10m long (by 0.50 thick) and survives to a max height of 1.7m. It has 2 symmetrically-placed window openings. Ne wall is well preserved 7.4m long and survives to a max height of 1.7m. S end of wall appears to have a finished face again 0.50m thick. Sw wall is less well preserved and survives to a height of 1m (by 0.50m thick) - only 4m of good walling survives and the s end is very tumbled. A short stub of walling (0.45m wide by 0.50 high) projects into the inside of the building about half way along. This may have been one side of a chimney place. The se wall, presumably the main fontage does not survive.

W SOME VERY LARGE PIECES, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV307362.

All the walls are built of flint and chert rubble (w some very large pieces), bonded with a mixture of yellow sandy clay and mortar. There are also very occasional red bricks in the walling.

?, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV307363.

An extension/shed(?) is built against the outside of the sw wall, 3.2m wide by 6.10m (as surviving) long. This extension is dug/built into the surrounding banks on the nw and sw sides so that the tops of the walls are level with the ground (1m high at nw end but only surviving to 0.50m high at the s end). Walls are mortared flint and chert rubble. The inside wall faces are heavily mortared. The se wall is missing, or the extension may have been wooden or open-fronted.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV307365.

Des=os 6"(1890)102nw.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV307366.

Crockett, a. /a chudleigh chronicle/(1985)11.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV307367.

Des=ea/haldon ridge survey archive/(9/7/1996)/in smr.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV307368.

Des=ea/photo/cp2686.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV307369.

Dyer, m. /(1996)/(ea report 96.26).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV79.

Vis=14/2/1996 (ea) harcombe cottage. Ruined building in a triangular enclosure attached to the chudleigh side of the kenn/chudleigh parish boundary, which is also the boundary wall of the harcombe estate.

NERC, 2013, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) Tellus: South Devon to Dartmoor, LIDAR SX98SW Tellus DTM 01-JUL-2013 to 31-AUG-2013 (Cartographic). SDV361514.

The structure and associated enclosures were not discernible on the Tellus lidar derived images.

Next Perspectives, 2015-2017, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery SX9082 19-JUL-2016 & 23-AUG-2016 (Aerial Photograph). SDV361515.

The structure and associated enclosures were obscured from view by dense tree cover.

Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2018-2019, The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey. Area 1, Haldon Ridge to Dart Valley (Interpretation). SDV361305.

No evidence of the structure or associated enclosures were visible on the imagery available to the survey. The site is obscured by dense tree cover on digital images derived from aerial photographs of 1999 onwards. Digital images derived from lidar data captured in 2013 are not of sufficient resolution to reveal any earthworks associated with the possible deserted settlement.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV307361	Migrated Record: BY 0.50 THICK.
SDV307362	Migrated Record: W SOME VERY LARGE PIECES.
SDV307363	Migrated Record: ?.
SDV307365	Migrated Record:
SDV307366	Migrated Record:
SDV307367	Migrated Record:
SDV307368	Migrated Record:
SDV307369	Migrated Record:
SDV361305	Interpretation: Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R.. 2018-2019. The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey. Area 1, Haldon Ridge to Dart Valley. Historic England Research Report. Digital.
	Linked documents:1
SDV361514	Cartographic: NERC. 2013. LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) Tellus: South Devon to Dartmoor. Digital. LIDAR SX98SW Tellus DTM 01-JUL-2013 to 31-AUG-2013.
SDV361515	Aerial Photograph: Next Perspectives. 2015-2017. Aerial Photography for Great Britain. Digital. Next Perspectives APGB Imagery SX9082 19-JUL-2016 & 23-AUG-2016.
SDV79	Migrated Record:

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7515 - The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping (formerly NMP) Survey (Ref: ACD1748)

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