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Summary

Curvilinear banks are visible on images derived from lidar data, as earthworks on the south and south-east facing slopes to the south-east of Mackham. The banks might be the remains of field boundaries of medieval origin and may in part relate to field clearance and extractive activity.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD BOUNDARY (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD? (Between) to 1750 AD? (Between))

Full description

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

Plot 1960 is named as ‘Stoney Piece’. Plots 1960 and 1961 are named ‘Great Marleland’ and ‘Little Marleland’.

Devon County Council, 1838-1848, Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848 (Cartographic). SDV349431.

The visible earthworks correspond in part with field boundaries depicted on the Tithe map for Hemyock.

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

Curvilinear banks are visible as earthworks.

Hegarty, C., 2025, Comment on Unlocking Landscapes project and related lidar and aerial photograph interpretations (Interpretation). SDV366411.

Curvilinear banks are visible on images derived from lidar data, as earthworks on the south and south-east facing slopes to the south-east of Mackham. The banks within the field on the plateau edge correspond in part with field boundaries depicted on the Tithe map for Hemyock through to the current Ordnance Survey base map. The curvilinear elements probably reflect a medieval origin, partly superseded by more regular boundaries of post-medieval date. The plot on plateau edge in which curvilinear banks are visible (1960) in is named as ‘Stoney Piece’. Downslope, plots 1960 and 1961 contain further banks, and are named ‘Great Marleland’ and ‘Little Marleland’. These may reflect the earthworks’ role in field clearance and former extractive activity within the lower plots which may have created or enhanced the apparent divisions or boundary banks.

Horner, B., 2025, Lidar interpretation (Personal Comment). SDV366415.

Possible enclosures/boundary banks to the SE of Mackham. Field on plateau edge, with possible curving bank, is named as ‘Stoney Piece’ on Tithe Apportionment. The fields downslope have ‘Marle’ name elements, which may suggest extraction, which may have accentuated possible bank features.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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