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| HER Number: | MDV8273 |
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| Name: | Field system on Week Down, Chagford |
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Summary
Area of low banks indicate remains of a potentially prehistoric field system here. Lidar data shows some possible cultivation strips.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 711 866 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX78NW |
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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: SX78NW23
- National Record of the Historic Environment: 445516
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SX78NW/43
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- FIELD SYSTEM (Constructed, Late Neolithic to Late Medieval - 3000 BC? (Between) to 1539 AD (Between))
Full description
Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2082, 4344-45 (Aerial Photograph). SDV221887.
Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1953/1981, SX78NW23 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV260868.
(19/03/1953) Field system. Area centred at SX7114 8663. Scattered irregular field banks, average height 0.4 metres. Area is bracken-covered.
(24/11/1981) Week Down, an area of 5.5 hectares on a slight north slope, is densely covered with bracken and centred at SX 71148659. A probable prehistoric field system is only visible intermittently as banks of small stones, about 1.0 metre wide and 0.3 metres high; mostly it can only be felt under-foot. The banks are parallel but irregularly spaced and it was not possible to deduce the precise pattern or field size.
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.
Not visible on 1946 Royal Air Force aerial photographs.
Environment Agency, 1998-2014, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) (Cartographic). SDV359177.
Lidar data shows some evidence of possible field boundaries / cultivation strips, mostly running in a west-north-west to east-south-east direction.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV221887 | Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1947. RAF/CPE/UK/2082. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. 4344-45. |
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| SDV260868 | Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card: Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division. 1953/1981. SX78NW23. Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card. Card Index. |
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| 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. |
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| SDV359177 | Cartographic: Environment Agency. 1998-2014. LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution). Environment Agency LiDAR data. Digital. [Mapped features: #108303 ; #108304 ; #108305 ; #108306 ; #108307 ; #108308 ; #108309 ] |
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Associated Monuments
| MDV8229 | Related to: Week Down Cross, Chagford (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | May 31 2022 10:40AM |
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