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Summary

Truncated curvilinear enclosure visible on 1880s-1890s Ordnance Survey map, which is thought to enclose an early medieval field system.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE (Post Roman to Saxon - 410 AD (Between) to 1065 AD (Between))
• ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEM (Post Roman to Saxon - 410 AD (Between) to 1065 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Truncated curvilinear enclosure is visible.

Green, T., 2000, Early Enclosures in a Landscape of Dispersed Settlement: An Examination of Patterns Detected in the Field Boundaries of North Devon and West Somerset, 3, 30. (Post-Graduate Thesis). SDV347809.

A close examination of the Ordnance Survey First Edition 25 inch map and the 1840s tithe maps of part of the south-western region of England reveals, within the field-patterns, curving boundaries which appear to form enclosures. These 'curvilinear enclosures' become nuclei in the development of local field-patterns, hence they may be thought to pre-date that which surrounds them. Settlement closely associated with these enclosures may therefore also be suspected to have an early origin.

The truncated curvilinear enclosures often have a clear relationship to a bounday which gives them the appearance of being 'chopped off'. At Exmansworthy, a seacliff limits the enclosure. Map object based on this Source.

Ordnance Survey, 2011, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV346129.

Truncated curvilinear enclosure is visible.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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