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Monument details

Summary

Earthworks are visible covering an extensive area between the village of Sarre and the River Wantsum on 1940s aerial photographs. They are composed of interlinked and overlapping linear banks and ditches and a possible house platform. Although the features are undated they are similar in character to plot boundaries and drains derived from medieval settlement. Examination of modern aerial photographs indicates that these features have been levelled.

Monument Types

• BANK (EARTHWORK) (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
• DITCH (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
• FIELD BOUNDARY (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
• HOUSE PLATFORM (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

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Earthworks are visible covering an extensive area between the village of Sarre and the River Wantsum on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. They cover an area 900m (NW-SE) x 170m (NE-SW) and are composed of interlinked and overlapping linear banks and ditches and a single flat-topped mound-like feature. The latter feature is interpreted as a possible house platform. Some of the linear features appear to be related to drainage whilst others follow similar alignments to boundaries and roads within the village. Although the features are undated they are similar in character to plot boundaries and drains derived from medieval settlement. It is possible that Sarre is a previously unrecognised shrunken medieval village. Examination of modern aerial photographs indicates that these features have been levelled [2].

A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [3].

<2> Google Earth (Graphic material). SWX15704.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.

<3> Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE25954.

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