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Summary

Parallel concentric ditches are visible as cropmarks on digital images derived from aerial photographs captured in May 2022, defining part of the north-east circuit of a double ditched curvilinear enclosure of probable late prehistoric to Roman date, on the south-west facing combe slopes north of Tibridge, Marystow.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Early Iron Age to Roman - 700 BC (Between) to 409 AD (Between))

Full description

University of Exeter, 2020-2021, University of Exeter Unlocking Landscapes Project – validated data, ULDEV237 (Interpretation). SDV365999.

Concentric cropmarks of ditches are visible on Google Earth imagery dated May 2020, forming an enclosure of a low spur northwest of Tibridge.

Google, 2023, Google Earth Pro, May 2022 (Aerial Photograph). SDV365802.

Curvilinear ditches are visible as cropmarks.

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

A distance of 9m to 12m separates the inner and outer ditches on the north-east side of the enclosure. No break can be seen in either ditch but a narrowing of the outer ditch might indicate the location of an entrance. A dark sub-circular hollow within the centre of the enclosure might be evidence of an area of terracing. No further internal features can be identified with confidence; narrow linear cropmarks across this are are probably geological or possibly agricultural in origin.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV9082 - Lidar Survey: University of Exeter Unlocking Landscapes Project

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