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Summary

A ring ditch is visible as a dark curvilinear cropmark on aerial photographs taken in 1987, and may have formed over the ditch of a Bronze Age barrow. It is visible as a very indistinct cropmarkon aerial photographs taken in 1990, but not on any of the other available sources.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX98NW/205

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

APH, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV304283.

Ring ditch n of pengelly farm. Recorded from the air by f. Griffith in 1987 (aph).

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV304284.

Aph=dap/iv 6a,7/(10/7/1987).

Devon County Council, 1987, DAP 5651, DAP 5651/6A-7 10-JUL-1987 (IV) (Aerial Photograph). SDV358586.

A dark ring-shaped cropmark is visible. Some inaccuracy is likely as the number of suitable control points for rectification was very limited.

Devon County Council, 1990, DAP 6814, DAP 6814/13-14 28-MAY-1990 (QU) (Aerial Photograph). SDV358594.

A very indistinct narrow curviinear cropmark is visible.

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

A dark curvilinear cropmark, less than one metre wide, is visible on specialist oblique aerial photographs taken in 1987, forming a partial ring-shaped feature circa 16 metres wide. The south-east side is not visible. The ring ditch may have formed over the ditch of a Bronze Age barrow, but other explanations are possible. A very indistinct narrow cropmark of similar form and size is visible on aerial photographs taken in 1990, but no evidence of the ring ditch was seen on any other available aerial photographs, including several of this area where cropmarks of archaeological origin are clearly defined.
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

SDV304283	Migrated Record: APH.
SDV304284	Aerial Photograph:
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
SDV358586	Aerial Photograph: Devon County Council. 1987. DAP 5651. Devon Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). DAP 5651/6A-7 10-JUL-1987 (IV). [Mapped feature: #96637 ]
SDV358594	Aerial Photograph: Devon County Council. 1990. DAP 6814. Devon Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). DAP 6814/13-14 28-MAY-1990 (QU).

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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