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Monument details

Summary

A boundary bank is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs. It is discontinuous and follows a generally sinuous W-E alignment, running for a total of 280m. The bank appears to have been plough-levelled as recent aerial photography shows it as a cropmark. The feature lies close to the salting and moated site at Docker Hill and may be related this complex, see Related Monuments.

Monument Types

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

Full description

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A boundary bank is visible as an earthwork on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1].
The bank is discontinuous and follows a generally sinuous W-E alignment, running for a total of 280m; there is what appears to be an original gap in the bank 75m from its western end and it is cut through by a field boundary 115m from its eastern end. The bank appears to have been plough-levelled as recent aerial photography shows it as a cropmark [2]. The feature lies 50m east of the salting and moated site at Docker Hill (TR 26 SE 15, see Related Monuments) and may be related this complex. It is also likely that the bank is related to medieval or post-medieval land reclamation in the Wantsum Channel.

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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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.

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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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