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Summary

Clay pits are marked on historic and modern mapping, and visible on aerial photography. They are also visible as earthwork depressions on images derived from lidar data captured in 2016.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CLAY PIT (Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD (Between) to 1840 AD (Between))

Full description

South West Heritage Trust, 1838-1848, Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments (Cartographic). SDV359954.

The plot is recorded as 'Pit Orchard' (Plot 1510).

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Clay pits are marked as 'Old Clay Pits' on the First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch map.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

Clay pits are marked as 'Old Clay Pits' on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch map.

Royal Air Force, 1946 - 1949, Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV342938.

Earthworks are visible on the Royal Air Force photography.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003-2004, East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Archaeological Survey (Archive - Survey). SDV351568.

Field called Pit Orchard on Tithe Map/Tithe Apportionment (Tithe Apportionment No. 1510). 'Old Clay Pit' shown and marked on OS 1891 map and still shown on modern map. Area shown as Upper Keuper Marl on geology map.

Ordnance Survey, 2006, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV324628.

Clay pits are marked as 'Pit (disused)' on the Ordnance Survey MasterMap.

Bluesky International, 2016, LiDAR DTM data (0.5m resolution) Blackdown Hills and East Devon AONBs: 3 transects, LIDAR SY1597 Bluesky International DTM 04-MAY-2016 (Cartographic). SDV359714.

Two earthwork depressions are visible.

Sims, R., Knight, S. & Houghton, E., 2020-2021, East Devon AONB Lidar Assessment and Desk based Assessment (Interpretation). SDV363914.

Two irregular shaped earthwork depressions are visible on images derived from lidar data captured in 2016. The west depression is circa 75m by 45m and the east depression is circa 60m by 50m. They are situated within a plot recorded as 'Pit Orchard' in the Tithe Survey. They correspond with depicted 'Old Clay Pits' on the First Edition OS map and on subsequent maps, where the plot is no longer depicted as an orchard. The depressions are interpreted as clay pits of post-medieval to 19th century origin, that ceased extraction prior to circa 1840.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8340 - East Devon AONB Lidar Assessment and Desk based Assessment

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