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Summary

A possible ditched enclosure of later prehistoric to Roman date is visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark near the bottom of a west facing slope south-east of Up Exe, overlooking the Exe Valley.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Cropmarks of a later Prehistoric or Roman enclosure about 375 metres south-east of Upexe Barton

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: 1038588
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS90SW/147

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

NMR, CITING MILLER, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV46864.

Rapid examination of ap suggests the presence of a rectilinear enclosure, of uncertain date, visible as a cropmark c.350m se of upexe farm (nmr, citing miller).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV46865.

Nmr=ss90sw46.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV46866.

Des=miller, a. /(12/2/1996)/rchme ap primary recording project.

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV46867.

Aph=nmr/ss9402/1-2, 16-18.

English Heritage, 1983, NMR 2151, NMR 2151/3016-3019 16-AUG-1983 (Aerial Photograph). SDV357395.

A cropmark enclosure is visible.

Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R., 2014-2015, East and Mid Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV356883.

A possible ditched enclosure of later prehistoric to Roman date is visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark near the bottom of a west facing slope south-east of Up Exe, overlooking the Exe Valley.
The visible linear cropmark is between 1.5 to 2.5 metres wide defining a rectangular area circa 20 by 30 metres in size. A possible circular annexe or enclosure circa 7 metres in diameter is visible to the south-western corner of the cropmark enclosure.
An apparent break in the western edge of the enclosure and the poor visibility of the south-eastern corner of the enclosure is probably an effect of a band of deeper or wetter soils, itself visible as a dark cropmark crossing the centre of the enclosure, obscuring or suppressing the formation of archaeological cropmarks.
The ditches probably survive as buried features.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV356883	Interpretation: Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R.. 2014-2015. East and Mid Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project. AC Archaeology Report. Digital.
	Linked documents:1
SDV357395	Aerial Photograph: English Heritage. 1983. NMR 2151. NMR Aerial Photograph. Print. NMR 2151/3016-3019 16-AUG-1983. [Mapped feature: #96236 ]
SDV46864	Migrated Record: NMR, CITING MILLER.
SDV46865	Migrated Record:
SDV46866	Migrated Record:
SDV46867	Aerial Photograph:

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6530 - The East and Mid-Devon Rivers Catchment NMP project (Ref: ACD613)

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