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Summary

A possible enclosure of unknown date is visible on images derived from lidar data. It is defined by a low earthwork bank enclosing a rectilinear area approximately 100m long and 45m wide, aligned along the crest of a roughly northeast to southwest ridge.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Early Iron Age to Late Medieval - 700 BC? (Between) to 1539 AD? (Between))

Full description

University of Exeter, 2020-2021, University of Exeter Unlocking Landscapes Project – validated data, ULDEV306 (Interpretation). SDV365999.

Possible enclosure.

Environment Agency, 2021, University of Exeter Understanding Landscapes Project - Lidar visualisation (Cartographic). SDV366001.

A bank is visible as an earthwork defining a rectilinear enclosure approximately 100m long and 45m wide.

Hegarty, C., 2024, Comment on Unlocking Landscapes project interpretation (Personal Comment). SDV366085.

The date of the enclosure is unclear. It does not correspond to any enclosure depicted on the Tithe Map for East Allington or the Ordnance Survey First Edition 25 inch map and appears to be bisected by a former track suggesting it predates the post-medieval period. The western end of the enclosure appears to be aligned upon or possibly be fossilised within the extant field system, which could support an interpretation of a prehistoric to medieval date. Although the regular rectilinear plan might suggest a Roman date it does not appear typical of enclosures of this period.

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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