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Summary

Cropmark ditches of potential prehistoric date are visible on oblique aerial photographs of 1970, to the southwest of Exwell Barton.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: 447871
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX98NE/1

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• RING DITCH (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2200 BC to 42 AD (Between))

Full description

BALKWILL ON CUC AP, Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV293705.

Air photo shows a possible ring ditch and an oval enclosure about 80m long (balkwill on cuc ap). Vis=14/9/1982 (os) the low lying pasture field exhibits no remains.

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV293706.

Aph=cuc/bcv 53(3/7/1970)/oblique/retained at cambridge.

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV293707.

Aph=sx9585/nmr.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV293708.

Osa=sx98ne30.

Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography, 1970, CUCAP BCV, CUCAP BCV53 03-JUL-1970 (Aerial Photograph). SDV356123.

The curvilinear cropmark ditches of potential prehistoric date are visible on oblique aerial photographs of 1970.

Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R., 2013-2014, South Devon Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV351146.

Cropmark ditches of potential prehistoric date are visible on oblique aerial photographs of 1970, to the southwest of Exwell Barton. The cropmarks are sited on gently northeast sloping ground overlooking the Exe Estuary, within an area characterised by prehistoric remains. The cropmark features include two possible adjacent ring ditches. The eastern of the two features is composed of two curvilinear ditch segments which form a broadly sub-oval shape and which measures approximately 10m in width. The ring ditch has been truncated away at its northern extent by a former, now removed, roadway which is also visible as a cropmark feature. Indeed, the oval shaped enclosure alluded to in this record and measuring approximately 80m in length likely relates to the cropmarks of this former roadway. Approximately 17m to the west is a more diffuse curvilinear cropmark of a second possible ring ditch of which only the eastern extent is visible, the western extent being partly obscured by the site of a dwelling and hedge line. The cropmark features were not visible on other aerial photographs or digital images made available to the survey.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV293705	Report - Survey: BALKWILL ON CUC AP.
SDV293706	Aerial Photograph:
SDV293707	Aerial Photograph:
SDV293708	Migrated Record:
SDV351146	Interpretation: Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R.. 2013-2014. South Devon Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Project. AC Archaeology Report. Digital.
	Linked documents:1
SDV356123	Aerial Photograph: Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography. 1970. CUCAP BCV. Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography. CUCAP BCV53 03-JUL-1970. [Mapped feature: #110370 ]

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6127 - Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme (NMP) for South-West England - South Coast Devon (Ref: ACD618)
• EDV5430 - Geophysical Survey on Gas Pipeline, Aylesbeare to Kenn
• EDV5439 - Archaeological Investigations Along Gas Pipeline, South-West Reinforcement Project

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