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| HER Number: | MDV6186 |
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| Name: | Lynchets on Meldon Common |
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Summary
A series of bracken-covered lynchets and field banks forming a field system of uncertain date.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 693 863 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX68NE |
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| Admin Area | Dartmoor National Park |
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| Civil Parish | Chagford |
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| District | West Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | CHAGFORD |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses
- National Monuments Record: SX68NE6
- National Record of the Historic Environment: 443488
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/64
- Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX68NE49?
- Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX68NE6
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- LYNCHET (Constructed, Unknown date)
Full description
Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1953/1974, SX68SE6 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV273627.
(19/03/1953) Area centred at SX 69658650) Scattered, ill-defined lynchets and field banks in the area which is bracken covered moorland.
(23/07/1974) Bracken of extreme density and height obscures the area so that the recorded lynchets and field banks cannot be investigated.
National Monuments Record, 1977, SX6986, 1 (Aerial Photograph). SDV273626.
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.
Several lynchets visible and recorded.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV273626 | Aerial Photograph: National Monuments Record. 1977. SX6986. National Monuments Record Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). 1. |
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| SDV273627 | Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card: Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division. 1953/1974. SX68SE6. Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card. Card Index. |
| SDV319854 | Cartographic: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1985. Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP. Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England Aerial Photograph P. Cartographic. [Mapped feature: #138111 ] |
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Associated Monuments: none recorded
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | May 12 2023 11:53AM |
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