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Summary

A cropmark ring ditch circa 13 metres in diameter was visible to the north of Garlandhayes Farm on aerial photographs of 1989, on north-west facing slopes overlooking the Culm valley. It might be the remains of a hut circle of later prehistoric or Roman date.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Prehistoric ring ditch north west of Woodville

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: 1044920
• Old DCC SMR Ref: ST00SW/57

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• RING DITCH (Early Bronze Age to Roman - 2200 BC to 409 AD (Between))
• ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC)? (Early Iron Age to Roman - 700 BC to 409 AD (Between))

Full description

APH, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV53436.

Annular dark mark diam c.12m recorded from the air as a cropmark by f. Griffith in 1989 (aph).

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV53438.

Aph=dap/ns 7/(5/7/1989).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV53439.

Des=dprfp 1998 + photo bm 28.

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV53440.

Aph=dap/mv 15/(27/6/1989).

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV53441.

Aph=dap/np 12,13/(4/7/1989).

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV53442.

Aph=dap/ow 7,8/(19/7/1989).

DPRFP, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV262469.

Vis=17/3/1998 (robinson) site lies in level valley field. At present obscured by dump of waste pulp from nearby paper mill (dprfp).

Bunn, D., 09/2013, Proposed Solar Farm, Winham Farm, Cullompton (Report - Geophysical Survey). SDV352258.

A fluxgate gradiometer survey was undertaken on land at Winham Farm, Cullompton, Devon
(centred at ST 01642 03667). The site is proposed as a solar farm.

The survey has identified ditches and pits in both survey areas. For the most part these were detected in the southern part of the site (Field 1), within and adjacent to cropmark ditches. Indeed, the survey recorded magnetic traces of a cropmark ring ditch and at least one other suspected archaeological linear cropmark. Further, hitherto unrecorded, ditches were detected.

Area 2
Probable traces of a large quarry (highlighted as yellow), the northern extent of which is recorded on O. S. historic maps2. Not withstanding the presence of ill-defined curvilinear anomalies (see above), it is speculated that the southern (sub-circular) extent of the quarry might correspond to a crop mark previously interpreted as a ‘ring ditch’ (DBA: 19).

English Heritage, 1989, DAP 6766, DAP 6766/07 05-JUL-1989 (NS) (Aerial Photograph). SDV357081.

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

The cropmark of a ring ditch circa 13 metres in diameter was visible on north-west facing slopes overlooking the Culm valley to the north of Garlandhayes Farm on aerial photographs of 1989. Cropmark ring ditches can be interpreted as evidence of barrows of Bronze Age date or hut circles of Iron Age or Roman date. The close association of extensive cropmark evidence for prehistoric settlement roughly 200 metres to the south of this ring ditch might support its identification as a hut circle, but further investigation is needed to clarify its interpretation.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV262469	Migrated Record: DPRFP.
SDV352258	Report - Geophysical Survey: Bunn, D.. 09/2013. Proposed Solar Farm, Winham Farm, Cullompton. Pre-Construct Geophysics Report. Digital + A4.
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
SDV357081	Aerial Photograph: English Heritage. 1989. DAP 6766. Devon Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). DAP 6766/07 05-JUL-1989 (NS). [Mapped feature: #96267 ]
SDV53436	Migrated Record: APH.
SDV53438	Aerial Photograph:
SDV53439	Migrated Record:
SDV53440	Aerial Photograph:
SDV53441	Aerial Photograph:
SDV53442	Aerial Photograph:

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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