| ID: | SDV344503 |
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| Title: | NMP Mapping in West Devon. Cornish Mining World Heritage Site Bid. |
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| Originator: | Taylor, E. |
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| Date: | 2002 |
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| Summary: | As part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site bid project (WHS), two members of the National Mapping Programme (NMP) team were seconded to plot all archaeological sites visible on aerial photographs from seven OS 1:10000 quarter map-sheets in the Tamar Valley area of west Devon. This work was carried out between June 2001 and January 2002. Two of the map-sheets were sited partly within the Dartmoor National Park.
As a result of the mapping, almost 1,500 sites were recorded, of which 500 are new to the Devon Sites and Monuments Record (SMR).
The project has not only made a significant contribution to Devon’s SMR, but has also added new information to the overall archaeological record. Many twentieth century military features, numerous destroyed field boundaries and some settlements from the medieval period, and a smaller number of prehistoric settlements and fields that were previously unrecorded were mapped.
Coincidentally, by recording the extent of the Tamar Valley’s orchards and gardens in the immediate post-war years from photographs of that date, the project has contributed invaluable information to the Tamar Valley Market Gardens Project, a current initiative devised and funded by Tamar Valley AONB.
In some parts of the project area (within Dartmoor National Park) problems were encountered with regard to insufficient physical control points within the landscape necessary to create accurate air photo plots. To overcome these problems, Geographical Positioning System Readings (GPS) were made on the ground and, in this way, a network of control points was established. This is probably the first time that such technology has been used in the NMP, thereby enhancing the methodology of this national project.
In order to achieve a consistent data standard across the whole of the WHS study area a grant from English Heritage Archaeology Commissions programme (Aerial Survey) was made to enable NMP mapping to be carried out in the west Devon part of the study area.
As well as funding from English Heritage, other contributors in the west Devon project are West Devon Borough Council, Devon County Council and Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). |
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| MDV114421 | Allotment Garden, Buckland Monachorum (Monument) |
| MDV114422 | Allotment Garden, Green Lane Gardens (Monument) |
| MDV114509 | Allotment Gardens at Millhill (Monument) |
| MDV114325 | Allotment Gardens East of Westbridge Cottages (Monument) |
| MDV114455 | Allotment Gardens North East of Whitchurch Road, Tavistock (Monument) |
| MDV114330 | Allotment Gardens South West of West Bridge, Tavistock (Monument) |
| MDV114189 | Allotments at Willestrew Parks (Monument) |
| MDV114273 | Allotments, off Butcher Park Hill (Monument) |
| MDV114236 | Allotments, west of Milton Abbot (Monument) |
| MDV114215 | Market Garden south-west of Tor Rock (Monument) |
| MDV114552 | Market Garden, Bere Ferrers (Monument) |
| MDV114536 | Market Garden, Chumland Cottages (Monument) |
| MDV114544 | Market Garden, west of Gnatham Farm (Monument) |
| MDV114557 | Market Gardens and Orchard, northeast of Bere Ferrers (Monument) |
| MDV114180 | Market Gardens at Endsleigh (Monument) |
| MDV114456 | Market Gardens at Hazelwood, Tavistock (Monument) |
| MDV114201 | Market Gardens east of Warleigh Wood (Monument) |
| MDV114388 | Market Gardens south of Whitson Farm (Monument) |
| MDV114529 | Orchard and Market Garden at Bulteel Bickham (Monument) |
| MDV114542 | Orchard and Market Garden, Gnatham Farm (Monument) |
| MDV114505 | Orchard at Broadwell Farm (Monument) |
| MDV114506 | Orchard at Hartshole Farm (Monument) |
| MDV114568 | Orchard at Pound (Monument) |
| MDV114507 | Orchard at Walreddon Farm (Monument) |
| MDV114398 | Orchard east of Great Trehills Farm (Monument) |
| MDV114214 | Orchard east of Tor Rock (Monument) |
| MDV114206 | Orchard north of Tamerton Lake (Monument) |
| MDV114229 | Orchard north-west of Warleigh Lodge (Monument) |
| MDV114399 | Orchard south of Allern Farm (Monument) |
| MDV114400 | Orchard south of Horsham Farm (Monument) |
| MDV114385 | Orchard south of Whitson Farm (Monument) |
| MDV114553 | Orchard, Bere Ferrers (Monument) |
| MDV114585 | Orchard, Dunsburgh Farm (Monument) |
| MDV114546 | Orchard, Hole Farm (Monument) |
| MDV114539 | Orchard, north of Gnatham Farm (Monument) |
| MDV114541 | Orchard, northeast of Gnatham Farm (Monument) |
| MDV114549 | Orchard, Parsonage Farm (Monument) |
| MDV114593 | Orchard, south of Bere Ferrers (Monument) |
| MDV114350 | Orchards at Colcharton House, North East of Gunnislake (Monument) |