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Monument details

Summary

A small rectilinear enclosure is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs. The enclosure measures 20m (NE-SW) x 10m (NW-SE) and is defined by a bank flanked by an internal ditch. The function of the enclosure is unclear but it is likely to be agricultural in origin and medieval or post-medieval in date. The features appear to have been plough-levelled by the 1960s as aerial photographs of this date show them as cropmarks.

Monument Types

• RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

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A small rectilinear enclosure is visible as an earthwork on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. The enclosure measures 20m (NE-SW) x 10m (NW-SE) and is defined by a bank flanked by an internal ditch. The bank is c.3m in diameter and the ditch c.2m; no gap in either is visible. The function of the enclosure is unclear but it is likely to be agricultural in origin and medieval or post-medieval in date. The features appear to have been plough-levelled by the 1960s as Ordnance Survey vertical aerial photographs of this date show them as cropmarks [2].

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

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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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