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Summary

An irregular ring ditch was visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark on the east facing slopes to the south of Dunsmore Farm. It is possible that the cropmarks are the remains of a barrow of Bronze Age date.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Prehistoric ring ditch south east of Dunsmore

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS90SE/117

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

DPRFP, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV262469.

Vis=1/5/1998 (robinson) site lies on level ground; no visible mound (dprfp).

APH, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV53687.

Faint annular mark, diam 10m at intersection of field boundaries. Recorded from the air as a cropmark in 1996 by f. Griffith (aph).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV53690.

Des=dprfp 1998 + photo bn34.

Griffith, F. M., 1996, DAP/AAR, Devon County Council DAP/AAR 12-13 20-JUL-1996 (Aerial Photograph). SDV321073.

A possible ring ditch is visible as a cropmark.

Griffith, F. M., 1996, DAP/ZZ, Devon County Council DAP/ZZ 7-8 17-JUL-1996 (Aerial Photograph). SDV346159.

A possible ring ditch is visible as a cropmark. Map object bsed on this source.

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

A possible ring ditch was visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark on the east facing slopes to the south of Dunsmore Farm. The cropmark is somewhat irregular in shape but is up to approximately 2 metres wide, enclosing an area up to 7 metres in diameter. The possible ring ditch was located at the junction of two former field boundaries, also visible as cropmarks, corresponding to boundaries depicted on the Tithe Map for Silverton. This partly accounts for the poor visibility of the ring ditch. However the cropmarks are potentially the remains of a barrow of Bronze Age date, and it is possible that such an earthwork was used as a landscape marker to lay out field boundaries in the medieval period. Three further ring ditches are visible circa 400 metres to the west and the possible barrow might be an outlier of this small cemetery group, overlooking the Culm Valley.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV262469	Migrated Record: DPRFP.
SDV321073	Aerial Photograph: Griffith, F. M.. 1996. DAP/AAR. Devon Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). Devon County Council DAP/AAR 12-13 20-JUL-1996.
SDV346159	Aerial Photograph: Griffith, F. M.. 1996. DAP/ZZ. Devon Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). Devon County Council DAP/ZZ 7-8 17-JUL-1996.
SDV356883	Interpretation: Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R.. 2014-2015. East and Mid Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project. AC Archaeology Report. Digital.
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SDV53687	Migrated Record: APH.
SDV53690	Migrated Record:

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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