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| HER Number: | MDV105733 |
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| Name: | Ditches, field to west of Matford Barton |
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Summary
A number of ditches were identified during a trench evaluation in a field to the west of Matford Barton. Prehistoric evidence is recorded in the same field including a Scheduled Barrow Cemetery.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 921 890 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX98NW |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Exeter |
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| Civil Parish | Exminster |
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| District | Teignbridge |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | EXMINSTER |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | ALPHINGTON |
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Protected Status
- SHINE: Prehistoric settlement and cemetery complex and former mill remains, north west of Waybrook Cottages
Other References/Statuses
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- DITCH (Lower Palaeolithic to Post Medieval - 698000 BC to 1750 AD)
Full description
Moon, K, 12/2013, Land South-West of Exeter, Alphington, Devon, Issue No. 2 (Report - Evaluation). SDV355653.
The majority of the features identified during phase 1 of the evaluation were ditches on a variety of alignments which produced no artefacts and are therefore of uncertain date. There was a broad correlation between the linear features identified by the magnetometer survey and various ditches found in the trenches, but they rarely match exactly, particularly in the northern trenches. This could be due to a discrepancy between the survey records for the trenching and the geophysical survey. However, there doesn’t seem to be systematic discrepancy as ditches found in a couple of the other ditches exactly match the ring ditches on the geophysical survey plot.
Ordnance Survey, 2014, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV355681.
Devon County Council, 2019, Google Earth Aerial Photograph Pilot Project, GE68 (Aerial Photograph). SDV363341.
(SX 92187 89187) Enclosure, ring ditches and linears east of Waybrook Cottage. Barrow cemetery MDV17714 visible on the 2018 Google Earth aerial photograph. Enclosure, ring ditches including MDV113020 and linears including MDV105733 also visible. Bronze Age to Romano-British in date.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV355653 | Report - Evaluation: Moon, K. 12/2013. Land South-West of Exeter, Alphington, Devon, Issue No. 2. Oxford Archaeology. 5794. Digital + A4. |
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| SDV355681 | Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 2014. MasterMap. Ordnance Survey Digital Mapping. Digital. [Mapped feature: #65166 ] |
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Associated Monuments: none recorded
Associated Finds
- FDV5455 - ANIMAL REMAINS (Unknown date)
- FDV5456 - FLINT (Prehistoric - 698000 BC to 42 AD)
- FDV5457 - SHERD (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2200 BC to 42 AD)
- FDV5458 - SHERD (Post Medieval to Modern - 1540 AD to 2013 AD)
Associated Events
- EDV6352 - Land South-West of Exeter, Alphington (Ref: 5794)
| Date Last Edited: | Jul 11 2023 2:02PM |
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