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Monument details

Summary

Two shallow pits are visible either side of a field drain on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs. Their function is unclear but since they appear to be sited in relation to the field boundary it is possible that they are contemporary with the field system and are agricultural in origin. The features may have been plough-levelled as they are not visible on recent aerial photography of the area.

Monument Types

• PIT (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

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Two shallow pits are visible either side of a field drain on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. The pits measure c.3m in diameter and they lie c.10m from the field drain. Their function is unclear but since they appear to be sited close to the field boundary it is possible that they are contemporary with the field system and are agricultural in origin. The features may have been plough-levelled as they are not visible on recent aerial photography of the area [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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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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