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Summary

A possible enclosure, potentially of prehistoric date, is visible on images derived from lidar data as an earthwork on the west-facing slopes overlooking the River Yarty, north of Gray’s Farm.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

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 approximately 4m wide are visible as earthworks on images derived from lidar data, enclosing an irregularly shaped area up to 70m across. A possible external ditch can be seen on the west and north sides of the enclosure. The enclosure bank might be overlain by a west to east aligned field boundary on its southern perimeter and appears to be abutted by further field boundaries to the north and north-east. This might support the interpretation that the enclosure predates and was incorporated into the medieval field pattern.

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

Possible enclosure. The various iterations of LiDAR suggest that the east-west field boundary may overlie continuation of an enclosure bank.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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