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Summary

Possible prehistoric enclosure visible on 2020 Google Earth image. Site is visible as a dark cropmark, roughly circular, measuring 53m east-west by 47 north-south.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• SUB CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE (Constructed, Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC? (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Unknown, 2020, Google Earth image, Accesed 05/04/2022 (Aerial Photograph). SDV364796.

Possible enclosure visible on aerial photograph.

Kaye, S., 2022, Possible features noted in Drewsteignton (Correspondence). SDV364797.

Possible prehistoric enclosure c.1 km south-south-west of Crockernwell identified from Google Earth 2020 aerial photograph; site visible as a dark cropmark.
The enclosure is c. 0.42 km east of Narracott House, partly on a level ridge overlooking a stream to the south. The enclosure is made of two components: a northern set of three, roughly straight-sided, cropmark ditches forming an upside down bowl. The northern side is c. 35 m long and is flanked either side by ditches c. 30 m long. The open, southern end of this inverted bowl structure is closed by a single curved (almost semi-circular) c. 66 m long ditch. The northern inverted bowl is on level ground while the southern curved ditch is on a slope down to the stream to the south (hidden by trees in the image above). Maximum elevation in the north is c.152 m sloping southwards down to c.149 m. The enclosure length N-S is c.148 m, 150 m E-W and encloses an area of c.0.2 hectares. The ditch cropmark width is c. 2.5 m.

Smart, C., 2023, Aerial Photograph Interpretation (Personal Comment). SDV366138.

A ditched enclosure is visible as a cropmark.

Google, 2023, Google Earth Pro, XX-MAY-2020 (Aerial Photograph). SDV365802.

A ditched enclosure is visible as a cropmark.

Hegarty, C., 2024, Comment on Unlocking Landscapes project lidar interpretation and associated aerial photograph interpretations (Personal Comment). SDV366085.

A possible ditched enclosure of roughly hexagonal plan, up to approximately 47m across and nearly 0.2ha area is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs of May 2020. The plan of the enclosure is atypical for settlements of later prehistoric date. The possible segmented arrangement of enclosure ditches might support an interpretation of Neolithic date.

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Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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