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Summary

Field system, south-west of Southcombe Farm. Recorded from the Tamar Valley National Mapping Programme and visible as earthwork banks and ditches on images derived from lidar data captured from 2005.

Location

Protected Status

• Registered Park or Garden (I) 1000428: ENDSLEIGH
• SHINE: Earthworks and cropmarks of a former medieval field system, south of Southcombe Farm

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD SYSTEM (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD (Between))

Full description

Devon County Council, 1838-1848, Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848 (Cartographic). SDV349431.

Curvilinear field boundaries are depicted.

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

Field system not visible on Ordnance Survey 1880s-1890s First Edition 25 inch map.

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

Field system not visible on Ordnance Survey 1904-1906 25 inch map.

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

Depressions of banks visible on Royal Air Force 1944-49 aerial photograph.

Environment Agency, 2000-2019, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) EA: Tamar Aerial Survey project area, LIDAR Environment Agency LAST RETURN 20-FEB-2005 (Cartographic). SDV363954.

Curvilinear earthwork banks and ditches are visible.

Cornwall Archaeological Unit, 2001-2002, Tamar Valley National Mapping Programme Transcriptions and Database Records, RAF/CPE/UK/2149/4228 CM 1947 (Interpretation). SDV346287.

Linear cropmark banks of a field system of unknown, but potential medieval, date are visible on aerial photographs of 1947.

Ordnance Survey, 2010, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV344030.

Field system not visible on Ordnance Survey MasterMap 2010.

Hegarty, C., Houghton, E., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2020-2021, Tamar/Lidar; A Single Source Approach to Landscape Survey and Socially Distanced Community Archaeology Area 1 (AI&M project) (Interpretation). SDV363945.

Several parallel curvilinear earthwork banks and ditches are visible on images derived from lidar data captured from 2005. They fit in to the surrounding field system as depicted on the tithe map, which appears to have been based on medieval strip fields. They are adjacent to the field system recorded immediately to the south-east, recorded from aerial photographs (MDV129243) and form part of the same field system. A wide bank that runs perpendicular to them may be a different phase, or possibly a geological feature. Only the field boundaries not depicted on the historic maps and not recorded by the Tamar Valley NMP project have been transcribed.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6911 - Tamar Valley National Mapping Programme
• EDV8098 - The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping (formerly NMP) Survey, Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (Ref: ACD2040)
• EDV8345 - Tamar/Lidar; A Single Source Approach to Landscape Survey and Socially Distanced Community Archaeology Area 1 (AI&M) (Ref: ACD2380)

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