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| HER Number: | MDV80161 |
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| Name: | Earthworks at Pill, Lake |
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Summary
A complex of mounds, banks and ditches, mostly forming a series of rectangular features and enclosures. A medieval origin is possible.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SS 558 316 |
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| Map Sheet: | SS53SE |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Tawstock |
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| District | North Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | TAWSTOCK |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses: none recorded
Monument Type(s) and Dates
Full description
Chris Blandford Associates, 1997, Barnstaple Western Bypass and Urban Relief Road Stage 4. Environmental Assessment Phase A, 11 (Report - Assessment). SDV347381.
A complex of mounds, banks and ditches, mostly forming a series of rectangular features and enclosures, can be discerned on a range of air photographs of the post-war period. Thes can to a great extent be seen on the ground as standing earthworks. Apart from the wedge shaped "platform" to the east of the barns at Pill, which relate to a former field boundary and trackway shown on the 1842/3 Tithe Map, none of these earthwork features can be related to any standing buildings or other features shown on maps from the late 18th centoru onwards. It is assumed therefore that they either relate to minor features which were not mapped, or to structures which pre-date any mapped evidence.
While some lie around the barn complex on a "terrace" of higher ground above and to the north of the narrow floodplain of a small stream, other features, particularly ditched enclsores, lie on the low-lying ground between the barn and the stream. In the 19th century this was referred to as Little Marsh, which may have been an integral part of the larger Pill Marsh further to the east along the west bank of the Taw.
Precise function and nature unknown, but a medieval origin is possible.
Lewis, D., Sept 2011, Land at Larkbear, Barnstaple: Archaeological Desk-based Assessment, 11 (Report - Assessment). SDV352261.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV347381 | Report - Assessment: Chris Blandford Associates. 1997. Barnstaple Western Bypass and Urban Relief Road Stage 4. Environmental Assessment Phase A. Chris Blandford Associates Report. Vol 2, Part 2. A4 Stapled + Digital. 11. [Mapped feature: #48918 ] |
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| SDV352261 | Report - Assessment: Lewis, D.. Sept 2011. Land at Larkbear, Barnstaple: Archaeological Desk-based Assessment. The Environmental Dimension Partnership (EDP). H_EDP1340_01. A4 Stapled + Digital. 11. |
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Associated Monuments: none recorded
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | Jan 24 2014 11:26AM |
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