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Monument details

Summary

A bank is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs. It follows a generally NW-SE aligned course for a total of 320m but is cut by a field drain close to its eastern end. It appears to have been plough-levelled by the 1960s as aerial photographs of this date show it as a cropmark. This feature represents a probable continuation of a feature recorded as part of MWX43225. A bank is shown on historic Ordnance Survey mapping that would link the two features. It is likely to be related to medieval or post-medieval date land reclamation in the Wantsum Channel.

Monument Types

• BANK (EARTHWORK) (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

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A bank is visible as an earthwork on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. It follows a generally NW-SE aligned course for 240m until it is cut by a field drain, it resumes this course the other side of the ditch and runs for a further 50m, then turns and runs NNE-SSW for a further 35m until it is cut by a field drain, no further continuation is visible. The bank appears to have been plough-levelled by the 1960s as Ordnance Survey vertical aerial photographs of this date show it as a cropmark [2].

This feature represents a probable continuation of a feature recorded as part of MWX43225. A bank is shown on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map of the area that would link the two features [3]. It is likely to be related to medieval or post-medieval date land reclamation in the Wantsum Channel.

A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [4].

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1893-7, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 2nd edition : 1893-1898 (Map). SWX11832.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.

<4> 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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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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