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Summary

A ditch of possible prehistoric date identified during trial trench works at Land off Pinhoe Road, Exeter. The ditch probably represents a field boundary of Iron Age date.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD BOUNDARY (Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD)

Full description

South West Heritage Trust, 1838-1848, Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments (Cartographic). SDV359954.

Pink, F., 2015, Land off Pinhoe Road, Exeter: Results of an Archaeological Trench Evaluation (Report - Evaluation). SDV360930.

An archaeological trench evaluation was carried out by AC archaeology in October 2015 on land off Pinhoe Road, Exeter, Devon.

A ditch of possible prehistoric date. It was sealed by a thick layer of alluvium of unknown date, but containing six sherds of prehistoric pottery of probable Iron Age date. The upper fill of ditch also contained a single sherd of Iron Age pottery, and a single worked flint of probable later Neolithic or early Bronze Age date which must be residual in this context. The ditch probably represents a field boundary of Iron Age date and may illustrate an extension of activity of this date known from excavations a short distance to the south at Hill Barton Farm.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7585 - Archaeological Trench Evaluation: Land off Pinhoe Road, Exeter, Devon

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