{"id":3445,"date":"2019-04-16T11:51:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T10:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/?page_id=3445"},"modified":"2024-09-05T16:33:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T15:33:13","slug":"sdcd_aim","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/the-devon-historic-environment-record\/sdcd_aim\/","title":{"rendered":"South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This survey aims to assess all readily available aerial photographic sources and lidar derived imagery, to interpret, map and record all visible archaeological sites and landscapes between the narrow coastal strip (previously surveyed as part of the South Devon Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey &#8211; RCZAS) and Dartmoor National Park (which had been assessed as part of a pre-National Mapping RCHME Survey).<\/p>\n<p>Between 2018 and 2019 an archaeological aerial investigation of the area between <a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/research\/results\/reports\/43-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haldon Ridge and the Dart Valley<\/a> was undertaken by a project team of staff from AC archaeology. A second area, between <a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/research\/results\/reports\/34-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plymouth and the Avon Valley<\/a>, was investigated by the same team immediately afterwards, completing in 2020. Both projects were funded by <a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/research\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Historic England<\/a> and hosted by Devon County Council within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/\">Historic Environment Team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A number of different themes became apparent as the projects progressed. These are summarised below but are covered in greater detail in the survey reports, which are available as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/research\/results\/reports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Historic England Research Report series<\/a>. Individual monument records are available online via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/default.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\">Heritage Gateway<\/a> and are mapped on the <a href=\"https:\/\/redirect.devon.gov.uk?link=EnvView\" rel=\"noopener\">Devon Environment Viewer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more about similar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/projects\/national-mapping-project\/\">aerial investigation and mapping projects in Devon<\/a> (formerly called \u2018National Mapping Programme\u2019 or \u2018NMP\u2019).<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3445 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/the-devon-historic-environment-record\/south-devon-rapid-coastal-zone-assessment-nmp-project\/attachment\/dcc-small\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"57\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2013\/12\/DCC-small-e1454947765796-120x57.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Devon County Council logo\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/the-devon-historic-environment-record\/south-devon-rapid-coastal-zone-assessment-nmp-project\/attachment\/ac-arch-logo-small\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"58\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2013\/12\/AC-Arch-Logo-small-e1499680604910-120x58.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"AC Archeology logo\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/the-devon-historic-environment-record\/the-devon-historic-market-coastal-towns-survey\/attachment\/historic-england-logo\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"38\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/02\/Historic-England-Logo-e1454947429554.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Historic England Logo\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h1>Area 1, Haldon Ridge to the Dart Valley<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3501\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-location-map.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3501 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-location-map-160x240.jpg\" alt=\"Maps showing the location of the survey area in the south of Devon, centred on Newton Abbot.\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-location-map-160x240.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-location-map-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-location-map-399x600.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-location-map-640x962.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-location-map.jpg 1738w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haldon Ridge to Dart Valley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This 290 square kilometre area contains a high proportion of buried archaeological sites which are visible as <a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/research\/methods\/airborne-remote-sensing\/formation-of-cropmarks\/\" rel=\"noopener\">cropmarks<\/a>, as well as good survival of nationally significant earthworks.<\/p>\n<p>The project examined almost 5000 thousand aerial photographs loaned from the <a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/images-books\/archive\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Historic England Archive<\/a><u>,<\/u> as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/the-devon-historic-environment-record\/\">collections held by Devon County Council<\/a> and modern digital datasets of vertical aerial photographs. Use of airborne laser scanning imagery allowed otherwise hard-to-detect earthworks and structures to be mapped and recorded.<\/p>\n<p>In total, just under 1700 archaeological or historic sites were identified from the aerial imagery and recorded on the Devon and Dartmoor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/the-devon-historic-environment-record\/\">Historic Environment Records<\/a> (HERs). 1260 archaeological sites were new to the record, an increase of 21%.<\/p>\n<h2>Field systems and farming<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3565\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3565\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/05\/Ipplepen_OrleyFieldSystem_MDV19187_03May2019_CHDCC-2-e1557231547191.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3565 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/05\/Ipplepen_OrleyFieldSystem_MDV19187_03May2019_CHDCC-2-e1557231547191.jpg\" alt=\"A colour ground photograph with irregular earthwork banks in the foreground, and a wooded hilltop in the distance.\" width=\"640\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/05\/Ipplepen_OrleyFieldSystem_MDV19187_03May2019_CHDCC-2-e1557231547191.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/05\/Ipplepen_OrleyFieldSystem_MDV19187_03May2019_CHDCC-2-e1557231547191-240x102.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denbury Hillfort on the horizon, with low irregular earthworks of Orley Common field system (MDV19187) in the foreground. Photograph: C Hegarty, May 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a predominantly rural county such as Devon, it is unsurprising that evidence of field boundaries and field systems were a major theme to emerge from this survey. However, with the exception of the Dartmoor reaves, evidence of pre-medieval land management is relatively rare across the county. So the remains found in the project area are particularly exciting, comprising widespread and well-preserved earthwork remains of Bronze Age to Romano-British field systems on the limestone plateaux.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3509\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3509\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Stallage-Common-MDV8616.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3509 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Stallage-Common-MDV8616-240x192.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white aerial photograph of prehistoric field boundary bank earthworks. \" width=\"240\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Stallage-Common-MDV8616-240x192.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Stallage-Common-MDV8616-768x613.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Stallage-Common-MDV8616-751x600.jpg 751w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Stallage-Common-MDV8616-640x511.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Stallage-Common-MDV8616.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oblique aerial photograph of Stallage Common field system (MDV8616). Devon County Council DAP\/HI 01 21-DEC-1986. \u00a9 Devon County Council.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Evidence of these field systems was first recorded at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV8713&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Dainton<\/a> during the post-war period, but it was not until the late-1970s to early-1980s that a comprehensive survey recognised their exceptional and extensive nature. Seventeen field systems were identified within the project area, including examples at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV13772&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Tornewton<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV8615&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Torbryan Hill<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV76373&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Deer Park<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV8644&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Clennon Fields<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV8616&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Stallage Common<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although many were visible on aerial photographs, use of lidar visualisations provided significant new information. Lidar was instrumental in recognising a number of previously unknown field systems, such as at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV122723&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Home Park<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV122722&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Kiln Orchard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV122693&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Dyer\u2019s Wood<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV122798&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Fairfield Farm<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>As well as providing greater clarity and definition, the survey has in most instances significantly increased the known area of previously identified field systems; the area mapped on <a href=\"https:\/\/redirect.devon.gov.uk?link=HistEnTorHillView\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Torbyran Hill<\/a>, for example, has increased threefold.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3511\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torbryan-Hill-lidar-MDV8615.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3511 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torbryan-Hill-lidar-MDV8615-170x240.jpg\" alt=\"A lidar visualisation showing low field boundary banks on a plateau of higher ground.\" width=\"170\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torbryan-Hill-lidar-MDV8615-170x240.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torbryan-Hill-lidar-MDV8615-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torbryan-Hill-lidar-MDV8615-424x600.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torbryan-Hill-lidar-MDV8615-640x905.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torbryan-Hill-lidar-MDV8615.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Field system at Torbryan Hill (MDV8615) Lidar visualisation showing surviving earthworks. LIDAR SX8166, SX8266, SX8167 &amp; SX8267 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 31-MAY-2017, \u00a9 Devon County Council, source Environment Agency.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3512\" style=\"width: 161px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torbryan-Hill-Mapping-MDV8615.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3512 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torbryan-Hill-Mapping-MDV8615-161x240.jpg\" alt=\"A map with overlying transcriptions in red showing the layout of former field boundaries on Torbryan Hill.\" width=\"161\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torbryan-Hill-Mapping-MDV8615-161x240.jpg 161w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torbryan-Hill-Mapping-MDV8615-768x1146.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torbryan-Hill-Mapping-MDV8615-402x600.jpg 402w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torbryan-Hill-Mapping-MDV8615-640x955.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torbryan-Hill-Mapping-MDV8615.jpg 1540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Field system at Torbryan Hill (MDV8615). AI&amp;M transcriptions \u00a9 Historic England.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The location of all the field systems on marginal land on the limestone plateaux, and their proximity to each other, suggest they may once have been part of a more extensive, and probably integrated, network of fields.<\/p>\n<p>This could perhaps have served a group of communities engaged in contiguous land management.\u00a0The survey recorded over 40 enclosures associated with these field systems, suggesting that communities lived as well as farmed here.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the current field boundaries are on similar alignments to the disused boundary banks, an indication perhaps that the prehistoric field systems were previously larger, and have influenced (or been incorporated into) later field patterns.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3495\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-enclosures-within-field-systems.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3495 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-enclosures-within-field-systems-800x306.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing the location and extent of several prehistoric or Roman field systems, with banks, enclosures and clearance cairns mapped in different colours.\" width=\"800\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-enclosures-within-field-systems-800x306.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-enclosures-within-field-systems-240x92.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-enclosures-within-field-systems-768x294.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-enclosures-within-field-systems-640x245.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-enclosures-within-field-systems.jpg 886w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enclosures (blue) suggesting possible settlement within field systems (red). AI&amp;M transcriptions \u00a9 Historic England.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3498\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-greatoak-Cross1-MDV125205.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3498 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-greatoak-Cross1-MDV125205-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white lidar visualisation of curvilinear earthwork lynchets on the north, east and south sides of a hill. \" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-greatoak-Cross1-MDV125205-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-greatoak-Cross1-MDV125205-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-greatoak-Cross1-MDV125205-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-greatoak-Cross1-MDV125205-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-greatoak-Cross1-MDV125205-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-greatoak-Cross1-MDV125205.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medieval strip lynchets on the slopes east of Greatoak Cross (MDV125205). LIDAR SX8667 &amp; SX8668 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 31-MAY-2017, \u00a9 Devon County Council, source Environment Agency.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The remains of later fields were very frequently seen all across the project area, and in terms of numbers the most common monuments recorded were medieval and post-medieval field boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Their buried remains were often visible as cropmarks, but they were more commonly noted as earthworks on lidar images. \u00a0Only the field boundaries not depicted on the available historic maps were recorded during the survey, so the high number of field boundary records demonstrates considerable field boundary loss prior to the Tithe map of the mid-19<sup>th<\/sup> century. This was particularly evident in the south of the project area.<\/p>\n<p>Some striking and extensive examples of medieval field systems were visible as strip lynchets on the slopes of \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=104&amp;uid=MDV8705\" rel=\"noopener\">Kerswell Hill<\/a> and east of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV125205&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Greatoak Cross<\/a>. Examples of ridge and furrow, generally rare in Devon, were recorded at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV123168&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">West Ogwell<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV123197&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Bickington<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Buried enclosures revealed as cropmarks<\/h2>\n<p>The dry summer of 2018, combined with the free draining soils in parts of the project area, created ideal conditions for the detection of buried archaeological sites visible as cropmarks. Historic England aerial reconnaissance made some exciting discoveries in the project area, such as the possible late prehistoric and Romano-British settlements at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV125514&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Ambrook Farm<\/a> and east of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV125486&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Penn Bungalow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-3445 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Ambrook-Farm1-MDV125514.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Ambrook-Farm1-MDV125514-120x120.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"A colour aerial photograph showing dark cropmarks of a multiple-ditched enclosure.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-3496\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-3496'>\n\t\t\t\tEnclosure at Ambrook Farm (MDV125514). HEA 33542\/09 19-JUL-2018 \u00a9 Historic England Archive.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Penn-Bungalow1-MDV125486.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Penn-Bungalow1-MDV125486-120x120.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"A colour aerial photograph showing dark cropmarks of a rectilinear ditched enclosure\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-3525\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-3525'>\n\t\t\t\tEnclosure east of Penn Bungalow (MDV125486). HEA 33542\/37 19-JUL-2018 \u00a9 Historic England Archive.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Dainton-Elms1-MDV81303.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Dainton-Elms1-MDV81303-120x120.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"A colour aerial photograph showing dark cropmarks of ditched enclosures.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-3497\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-3497'>\n\t\t\t\tEnclosures at Dainton Elms Cross (MDV81303). HEA 33541\/041 19-JUL-2018 \u00a9 Historic England Archive.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Over 90 enclosures were recorded during the survey, around 20% of which were newly recorded, and their distribution shows a strong correlation with slate and breccia geologies. Until recently, it was thought that these lowland enclosures were isolated settlements. However, geophysical survey and excavation at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV81303&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Dainton Elms Cross<\/a>, Ipplepen, demonstrates that <a href=\"https:\/\/redirect.devon.gov.uk?link=HistEnvIppView\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">apparently isolated Iron Age and Roman enclosures<\/a> may in fact be associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV81301&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">field systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Streams of tin<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3510\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3510\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Swincombe-Head-MDV26062.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3510 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Swincombe-Head-MDV26062-240x184.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white aerial photograph of a valley with sinuous earthwork ditches along the valley sides.\" width=\"240\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Swincombe-Head-MDV26062-240x184.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Swincombe-Head-MDV26062-768x588.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Swincombe-Head-MDV26062-784x600.jpg 784w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Swincombe-Head-MDV26062-640x490.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Swincombe-Head-MDV26062.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">18th\/19th century tin workings at Swincombe Head (MDV26062), Dartmoor. Devon County Council DAP\/JW 5 21-JAN-1988 \u00a9 Devon County Council.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Devon\u2019s tin industry was fundamental to the county\u2019s economy between the medieval and early post-medieval period. It was synonymous with the granite uplands of Dartmoor, where the massive scale of workings left few valleys unscathed, for example at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV26062&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Swincombe Head<\/a>. The only other sources of tin in the UK are found in Cornwall, such as on Bodmin Moor.<\/p>\n<p>The most common and easiest way to extract the tin was a technique known as <i>tin streaming<\/i>, exploiting the &#8216;tin streams&#8217; that had formed when tin ore eroded from the parent lode was deposited along river valleys or on hillslopes or dry valleys. Although most of the project area lies beyond the rich tin-bearing Dartmoor granite, large quantities of tin ore eroded from the parent lode over thousands of years were deposited by alluvial action along the Bovey valley, which bisects the project area.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3566\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/05\/BoveyTracey_HeathfieldStreamworksNGR2822107562_MDV69787_03May2019_SKDCC-6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3566 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/05\/BoveyTracey_HeathfieldStreamworksNGR2822107562_MDV69787_03May2019_SKDCC-6-240x180.jpg\" alt=\"A colour ground photograph of a water-filled hollow in woodland.\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/05\/BoveyTracey_HeathfieldStreamworksNGR2822107562_MDV69787_03May2019_SKDCC-6-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/05\/BoveyTracey_HeathfieldStreamworksNGR2822107562_MDV69787_03May2019_SKDCC-6-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/05\/BoveyTracey_HeathfieldStreamworksNGR2822107562_MDV69787_03May2019_SKDCC-6-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/05\/BoveyTracey_HeathfieldStreamworksNGR2822107562_MDV69787_03May2019_SKDCC-6-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/05\/BoveyTracey_HeathfieldStreamworksNGR2822107562_MDV69787_03May2019_SKDCC-6.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Remains of streamworks at Heathfield, Bovey Tracey (MDV69787). Photograph: S Knight, May 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Evidence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historic-cornwall.org.uk\/flyingpast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tin streaming<\/a> dominates the results of the survey in the north-west corner of the project area around Bovey Tracey and Heathfield. The extensive nature of these earthworks suggests that the tin industry in this lowland zone was carried out on a much greater scale than previously thought, and this area perhaps deserves greater academic\u00a0attention, having until now been somewhat sidelined in preference to Dartmoor.<\/p>\n<p>Lidar was particularly useful in the identification and recording of tin working sites, since most of these former workings have long since been covered by woodland or almost levelled through ploughing, making the earthworks virtually undetectable on aerial photographs. In total 25 monuments interpreted as streamworks or tin working complexes were recorded by the survey, of which 20 were new to the HER.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3506\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Pitt-Plantation1-MDV61846.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3506 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Pitt-Plantation1-MDV61846-240x163.jpg\" alt=\"A colour aerial photograph of a wooded area.\" width=\"240\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Pitt-Plantation1-MDV61846-240x163.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Pitt-Plantation1-MDV61846-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Pitt-Plantation1-MDV61846-800x544.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Pitt-Plantation1-MDV61846-640x435.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Pitt-Plantation1-MDV61846.jpg 886w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dense woodland in 1999-2000 obscuring earthworks of medieval and early post-medieval tinworkings at Pitt\u2019s Plantation (MDV61846). Millennium Map extract, copyright Getmapping plc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3508\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Pitts-Plantation-lidar1-MDV61846.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3508 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Pitts-Plantation-lidar1-MDV61846-240x156.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white lidar visualisation of a complex of irregular earthwork mounds and ditches.\" width=\"240\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Pitts-Plantation-lidar1-MDV61846-240x156.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Pitts-Plantation-lidar1-MDV61846-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Pitts-Plantation-lidar1-MDV61846-800x521.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Pitts-Plantation-lidar1-MDV61846-640x417.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Pitts-Plantation-lidar1-MDV61846.jpg 886w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tinworking earthworks within Pitt\u2019s Plantation (MDV61846) and oval earthworks of ornamental tree mounds in the red box (MDV115216). LIDAR SX8274, SX8374, SX8275 &amp; SX8375 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 31-MAY-2017 \u00a9 Devon County Council, source Environment Agency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The water channels, pits and spoil heaps of a possible streamworks were recorded at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV61846&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Pitt\u2019s Plantation<\/a>; much of this area was converted to forestry in the 19th century, but the &#8216;Pitt&#8217; element of its name must surely reflect the survival of extensive earthworks relating to the earlier industry.<\/p>\n<p>A different type of land reuse can be inferred in the adjacent parkland at <a href=\"https:\/\/redirect.devon.gov.uk?link=HistEnvStoverView\" rel=\"noopener\">Stover<\/a>, where two 17<sup>th<\/sup> or 18<sup>th<\/sup> century <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV115216&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">ornamental tree mounds<\/a> may have utilised the loose spoil of former tin workings. The workings here might have once extended further to the south, but if so would have been levelled by the subsequent Second World War United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV55119&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Army hospital and later Polish resettlement facility<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The amorphous and seemingly random form of the earthworks recorded at Pitts Plantation and at other lowland sites such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV21250&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Staplehill Copse<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV69787&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Bovey Heath<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV124415&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Parke Wood<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV124354&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Wifford<\/a> are in contrast to the more systematic workings found across Dartmoor. This could suggest that the tin deposits in these two geographic areas were worked in different ways, probably as a result of differences in topography and geology.<\/p>\n<h2>Fortification and control<\/h2>\n<p>In contrast to the neighbouring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/the-devon-historic-environment-record\/south-devon-rapid-coastal-zone-assessment-nmp-project\/\">South Devon Coast RCZA project<\/a>, we identified relatively few sites that could be described as defensive or military in origin.<\/p>\n<p>For some of the earliest defended sites visible on aerial imagery, the Iron Age hillforts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV8649&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Milber Down<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV8603&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Denbury<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV9145&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Berry&#8217;s Wood<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV9008&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Castle Dyke<\/a>, the use of various lidar visualisations has greatly assisted in mapping earthworks that are partly, or wholly, covered by woodland. The survey has added greater detail or new elements to some records, for example the earthwork ditch and banked ramparts which define two outer circuits within the northeast corner of Milber Down.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-3445 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Milber-Down-hillfort1-MDV8649.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Milber-Down-hillfort1-MDV8649-120x120.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"A map with overlying transcriptions marking the banks and ditches of the multiple circuits of earthwork defences at Milber Camp.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-3503\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-3503'>\n\t\t\t\tMilber Down Hillfort (MDV8649); newly recorded earthwork ditches and banks to the northeast. The base map is \u00a9 Crown Copyright and database right 2019. Ordnance Survey 100019783. AI&amp;M transcriptions \u00a9 Historic England.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-hillfort-MDV122542.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-hillfort-MDV122542-120x120.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"A black and white lidar visualisation of a substantial curvilinear earthwork bank around a hilltop.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-3499\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-3499'>\n\t\t\t\tIs this a newly recorded hillfort? (MDV122542). LIDAR SX8066; SX8166 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 31-MAY-2017, \u00a9 Devon County Council, source Environment Agency.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/web-text-Ipplepen-MDV121566.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/web-text-Ipplepen-MDV121566-120x120.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"A colour aerial photograph of two parallel dark cropmarks that may have formed the south-west corner of a ditched enclosure\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-3500\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-3500'>\n\t\t\t\tCropmarks of a possible Roman fort or camp in June 2018 (MDV121566). Google Earth Imagery \u00a9 2019 DigitalGlobe, Getmapping plc, Infoterra Ltd &amp; Bluesky.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>A newly recorded possible hillfort was visible as earthworks south of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV122542&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Coppa Dolla Farm<\/a>, located approximately 1.5km to the south-west of Denbury hillfort. This oval enclosure occupies a <a href=\"https:\/\/redirect.devon.gov.uk?link=HistEnvMDV122542View\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prominent ridge-top position<\/a>, which offers commanding views across the surrounding countryside. At 1.3 hectares, it is much smaller and less well-defended than other hillforts in the project area, and may therefore have fulfilled a different function. Further work, such as analytical earthwork survey or geophysical survey, could help to clarify the original purpose of this monument.<\/p>\n<p>Two particularly notable Roman defended sites were identified from cropmarks. A possible Roman fort or camp north of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV121566&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Dainton Elms Cross<\/a> was first recorded as a double-ditched enclosure during aerial reconnaissance in the 1990s, but more extensive cropmarks photographed in the dry summer of 2018 provided further detail and enabled reinterpretation. A possible fortification at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV122479&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Old Walls Hill<\/a> is similar in style to the Roman signal station at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV20078&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoke Hill<\/a>, Exeter.<\/p>\n<p>The intriguing remains at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV8998&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Round Covert<\/a>, Hennock have been subject to various different readings, although reassessment of the evidence during this survey supports an interpretation as a temporary Civil War emplacement. Other interesting earthworks likely to be of this date include the possible breastwork on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV13777&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Bovey Heath<\/a> thought to be associated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/listing\/the-list\/list-entry\/1002657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Battle of Bovey Heath\u2019<\/a> fought in 1645.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3514\" style=\"width: 1772px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-WW1-trenches-MDV42251.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3514 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-WW1-trenches-MDV42251.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white aerial imagery of crenelated earthwork ditches on open ground. They are much more clearly defined on the aerial photographs taken in 1946 than on the modern lidar visualisations.\" width=\"1772\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-WW1-trenches-MDV42251.jpg 1772w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-WW1-trenches-MDV42251-240x119.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-WW1-trenches-MDV42251-768x381.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-WW1-trenches-MDV42251-800x396.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-WW1-trenches-MDV42251-640x317.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1772px) 100vw, 1772px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First World War practice trenches on Teignmouth Golf Course (MDV42251): Left in 1946 RAF\/CPE\/UK\/1824 RP 3083 04-NOV-1946 Historic England Archive (RAF Photography); right on lidar-derived images LIDAR SX9175 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 31-MAY-2017, \u00a9 Devon County Council, source Environment Agency.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wartime and immediate post-war aerial photographs are excellent for identifying sites dating to the two World Wars. The impact of the First World War can still just be traced on the landscape at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV42251&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Teignmouth golf course<\/a>, where the <a href=\"http:\/\/map.devon.gov.uk\/DCCViewer\/?bm=AerialRAF1946-49&amp;layers=Historic%20Environment;0;1&amp;activeTab=Historic Environment&amp;extent=291863;75251;292120;75491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crenelated pattern of practice trenches<\/a> were recorded from 1940s aerial photographs. Lidar data shows that they survive as subtle earthwork banks and ditches.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3513\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3513\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torquay-Grammar-MDV125255.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3513 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torquay-Grammar-MDV125255-240x163.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white aerial photograph of the school and playing fields. Two complexes of low structures are visible to the south-west and north-west of the school.\" width=\"240\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torquay-Grammar-MDV125255-240x163.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torquay-Grammar-MDV125255-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torquay-Grammar-MDV125255-800x544.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torquay-Grammar-MDV125255-640x435.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-Torquay-Grammar-MDV125255.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hutted offices (MDV125255) for Prudential staff and two circular structures of Emergency Water Supply reservoirs (MDV125179), off Shiphay Avenue. United States Army camp (MDV125256) with bell-tents, Nissen huts and possible perimeter fence to the south. US\/7PH\/GP\/LOC147 V 5015 20-JAN-1944 Historic England Archive (USAAF Photography).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A far greater variety of Second World War sites were recorded. We can see evidence for\u00a0 construction of facilities for civilian defence, especially in the built-up areas of Torquay, dating to the early stages of the war when the airborne threat was at its greatest. Emergency Water Supply reservoirs were located in areas where water supply was at risk of disruption due to air raids, and a number of examples were recorded including at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV125409&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Main Avenue<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV125329&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Plainmoor Stadium<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV125406&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Mary\u2019s Church<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV125179&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Shiphay Avenue<\/a>. Air raid shelters for civilians were recognised at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV61531&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Newton Abbot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV122425&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Teignmouth<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV125326&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Torquay<\/a>. The risk from enemy bombing raids in the southwest was, however, still considered to be lower than in London, and Prudential Insurance temporarily moved their staff from the City into <a href=\"https:\/\/redirect.devon.gov.uk?link=HistEnvMDV125255View\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">purpose-built offices<\/a>, visible on 1940s aerial photographs in Shiphay, on the outskirts of Torquay.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the war, as Allied forces were preparing for the invasion of Europe, the emphasis shifted towards construction of temporary infrastructure such as army camps at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV21906&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Denbury<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV111667&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Stover Park<\/a>, naval stores depots on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV21239&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Knighton Heath<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV58013&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Heathfield<\/a> and a hospital at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV55119&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Ilford Park<\/a>, later reused as a Polish resettlement facility. Camps recorded in the grounds of two Torbay schools at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV125315&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Audley Park<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV125256&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Torquay Girls\u2019 Grammar<\/a> were new to the HER.<\/p>\n<h2>Religion and ceremony<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3502\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-long-barrow-MDV122439.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3502 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-long-barrow-MDV122439-240x159.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white aerial photograph of a cultivated field, within which is a pale oblong cropmark.\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-long-barrow-MDV122439-240x159.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-long-barrow-MDV122439-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-long-barrow-MDV122439-800x529.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-long-barrow-MDV122439-640x424.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-long-barrow-MDV122439-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/webtext-long-barrow-MDV122439.jpg 822w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Possible long barrow at Sandy Mount (MDV122439), visible as a pale elongated oval cropmark in the centre of the image. RAF\/541\/520 RP 3015-3016 13-MAY-1950 Historic England Archive (RAF Photography).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Neolithic ceremonial or funerary monuments are rare, so it was interesting to see the remains of a possible long barrow west of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV122439&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Sandy Mount<\/a>, which was visible as an elongated cropmark on aerial photographs taken in 1950. Sadly this area has since been subsumed by a modern housing development, making any positive identification of this feature unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>Monuments interpreted as Bronze Age round burial mounds were more frequently encountered, including newly recorded examples at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV124946&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Little Haldon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV124510&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">Ideford Common<\/a> which seem to form part of <a href=\"https:\/\/redirect.devon.gov.uk?link=HistEnvMDV124510View\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wider barrow cemeteries<\/a> that were already documented, and a newly recorded group of four mounds at Luscombe Castle (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV124754&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">MDV124754<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV124755&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">MDV124755<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV124756&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">MDV124756<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV124758&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">MDV124758<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Some of the earliest aerial photographs available to the survey team included images of the medieval (and later) site of <a href=\"https:\/\/redirect.devon.gov.uk?link=HistEnvBuckfastView\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buckfast Abbey<\/a>. As well as documenting the evolution of the formal landscape in the 20th century (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV123371&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">MDV123371<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV123375&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">MDV123375<\/a>) these early aerial photographs give us a visual insight into the changing recreational and working lives of the monks in the immediate pre- and post-war period (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV7808&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">MDV7808<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV20064&amp;resourceID=104\" rel=\"noopener\">MDV20064<\/a>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3494\" style=\"width: 886px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/web-text-Buckfast-Abbey-test.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3494 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/web-text-Buckfast-Abbey-test.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white aerial photograph centred on the church, which is surrounded by monastic buildings and landscaped grounds.\" width=\"886\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/web-text-Buckfast-Abbey-test.jpg 886w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/web-text-Buckfast-Abbey-test-240x111.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/web-text-Buckfast-Abbey-test-768x355.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/web-text-Buckfast-Abbey-test-800x369.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/04\/web-text-Buckfast-Abbey-test-640x295.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 886px) 100vw, 886px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buckfast Abbey in 1930. The works compound and partially completed roof of St Mary\u2019s Abbey Church (centre-left), tennis courts (top-top left) and what appear to be monks enjoying a cricket match near the river (top right). AFL 60713\/EPW033240 01-JUL-1930 \u00a9 Historic England Archive (Aerofilms Collection).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Area 2, Plymouth to the Avon Valley<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4011\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4011\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/Location-Map-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/Location-Map-240x240.jpg\" alt=\"A colour map showing the area of the project extending from Dartmoor in the north to Salcombe in the south-east and Plymouth in the west.\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/Location-Map-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/Location-Map-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/Location-Map-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/Location-Map-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/Location-Map-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/Location-Map-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/Location-Map-640x640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Avon Valley to Plymouth Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AI&amp;M) survey area. The base map is \u00a9 Crown Copyright and database right 2020. Ordnance Survey 100019783.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This second phase covered 355 square kilometres between Plymouth and the Avon Valley.\u00a0The survey has recorded evidence of buried and above ground archaeological remains dating from the Neolithic period to the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>Notable sites include a possible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV125834&amp;resourceID=104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neolithic tor enclosure<\/a>, the palimpsest of iconic Dartmoor Bronze Age monuments such as <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=257513.6862%2C63816.0175%2C257834.1032%2C64034.5519%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_1%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stone rows<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=271278.843%2C51946.6999%2C271585.7269%2C52165.5944%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_1%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barrows<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=257252.1309%2C60548.9985%2C257915.4039%2C61001.3714%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_1%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reaves<\/a> (early field systems), embanked earthwork enclosures of probable Iron Age or Roman date, <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=249324.2955%2C64535.4182%2C250548.5094%2C65408.627%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_1%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medieval strip fields and deserted settlements<\/a>, medieval and later tin mining and peat cutting remains, civil and industrial water supply infrastructure, china clay quarries and modern conflict landscapes from the 18th century to the Second World War.<\/p>\n<h2>Different types of prehistoric enclosure<\/h2>\n<p>Prehistoric boundaries and enclosures of different forms were recorded during the survey, ranging from stone built possible Neolithic tor enclosures and the extensive Bronze Age land divisions on Dartmoor known as reaves, to the numerous later enclosures visible as cropmarks or earthwork banks.<\/p>\n<p>Reave systems appear to be laid out with little regard for topography, covering large areas with parallel north-east to south-west aligned boundaries, for instance on the southern periphery of Dartmoor National Park at <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=257103.3728%2C60439.4289%2C258015.4773%2C61061.5127%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crownhill Down<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=254241.4149%2C61642.0539%2C257628.0883%2C63951.871%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shaugh Moor<\/a>. In many places they can be traced in later field systems where the prehistoric boundaries have become <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=263921.0023%2C56432.0554%2C265203.5609%2C57306.8004%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fossilised in the medieval field pattern<\/a>, for instance at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV126751&amp;resourceID=104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ivybridge<\/a>. The survey has been able to enhance many of the records of reave systems and associated hut circle settlements by adding additional detail visible on both lidar and aerial photographs, and has also identified possible additional reave systems some distance from Dartmoor, as at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV128691&amp;resourceID=104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leighmoor Cross<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-4' class='gallery galleryid-3445 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/the-devon-historic-environment-record\/sdcd_aim\/attachment\/mdv128691-4-leighmoor-cross\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV128691-4-Leighmoor-Cross-120x120.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"A modern map depicting extant boundaries, overlain by transcriptions of the possible reave earthwork banks, which are on a different alignment.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-4-4005\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-4-4005'>\n\t\t\t\tReaves beyond the moor? Coaxial field system south of Leighmoor Cross (MDV128691). AI&amp;M transcriptions \u00a9 Devon County Council\/Historic England. Base map \u00a9 Crown Copyright and database right 2020. Ordnance Survey 10019783. Contour data is Bluesky International Ltd. \/ Getmapping PLC. \u00a9 Copyright and database rights 2020.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/the-devon-historic-environment-record\/sdcd_aim\/attachment\/2018-cropmark-distribution\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/2018-Cropmark-Distribution-120x120.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"A map of the survey area depicting cropmarks visible on Google Earth imagery across the southern part of the survey area, and cropmarks recorded from Historic England specialist oblique aerial photographs clustering in the south-east of the survey area between the River Erme and Kingsbridge Estuary.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-4-4008\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-4-4008'>\n\t\t\t\tLater prehistoric cropmarks recorded from 2018 Google Earth coverage and Historic England\u2019s 2018 reconnaissance. The base map is \u00a9 Crown Copyright and database right 2020. Ordnance Survey 10019783.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/the-devon-historic-environment-record\/sdcd_aim\/attachment\/33738_047\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/33738_047-120x120.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Colour aerial photograph of rectilinear dark green cropmarks in a mottled pale green field.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-4-4098\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-4-4098'>\n\t\t\t\tDouble ditched enclosure south-west of Hemerdon (MDV126322). HEA 33738_047 23-JUL-2018 \u00a9 Historic England Archive.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The exceptionally dry summer of 2018 resulted in excellent conditions for the recording of archaeological cropmarks. Specialist aerial reconnaissance undertaken by Historic England allowed recording of newly identified enclosures of probable later prehistoric or Roman date. This included a <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=255415.4895%2C56617.2115%2C256742.3243%2C57563.6179%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_1%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">double-ditched enclosure near Hemerdon<\/a>, Sparkwell, which subsequent excavation appears to confirm is of Iron Age to Romano-British date. An even greater number of newly identified enclosures were visible on Google Earth imagery, scattered across the south of the project area.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4004\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV127690.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4004 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV127690-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"A colour aerial photograph of dark green linear and rectilinear cropmarks in a cultivated light green field, next to a modern map overlain by transcriptions of the cropmarks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV127690-800x400.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV127690-240x120.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV127690-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV127690-640x320.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV127690.jpg 827w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rectilinear enclosure with associated field system of potential late prehistoric or Roman date (MDV127690) south-west of Loddiswell, identified during Historic England\u2019s summer 2018 aerial reconnaissance. HEA 33739_47 23-JUL-2018 \u00a9 Historic England Archive. AI&amp;M transcriptions \u00a9 Devon County Council\/Historic England. Base map \u00a9 Crown Copyright and database right 2020. Ordnance Survey 10019783. Contour data: Bluesky International Ltd\/Getmapping PLC \u00a9 Copyright and database rights 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, and unusually for lowland Devon, over 30 enclosures of probable similar date could be identified as earthworks, many for the first time, as slight banks and ditches on lidar images, extending their distribution beyond the more upland areas close to Dartmoor. Internal features were not often visible, but subtle earthwork evidence of possible subdivision of <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=254211.9864%2C59462.5947%2C254695.8285%2C59792.5901%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boringdon Camp<\/a> into quadrants was identified, building on the results of recent geophysical survey.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4006\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4006\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/Three-earthwork-enclosures.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4006 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/Three-earthwork-enclosures-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Greyscale lidar imagery showing three different subtle curvilinear earthworks, with corresponding transcriptions of the banks and some ditches overlying the modern map.\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/Three-earthwork-enclosures-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/Three-earthwork-enclosures-160x240.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/Three-earthwork-enclosures-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/Three-earthwork-enclosures-640x960.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/Three-earthwork-enclosures.jpg 827w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three previously unrecorded earthwork enclosures. From top: MDV128630, MDV128470, MDV128726. LIDAR Environment Agency DTM 25-FEB-2019 \u00a9 Devon County Council. Source Environment Agency. AI&amp;M transcriptions \u00a9 Devon County Council\/Historic England. The base map is \u00a9 Crown Copyright and database right 2020. Ordnance Survey 10019783. Contour data is Bluesky International Ltd. \/ Getmapping PLC. \u00a9 Copyright and database rights 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Extracting tin, peat and clay<\/h2>\n<p>In England tin ore is found only in Devon and Cornwall. In Devon deposits are principally located on Dartmoor. Between the 12th and 16th centuries \u2018tin streams\u2019 were the most commonly exploited sources and the method used in extraction was consequently known as tin streaming. Evidence of streamworkings are apparent across Dartmoor and are one of the characteristic features of this landscape.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4134\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/Shaugh-Moor-Streamworks-and-Peat_Scale.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4134 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/Shaugh-Moor-Streamworks-and-Peat_Scale-800x457.jpg\" alt=\"A greyscale map with colour lines and polygons showing the streamworks as closely packed sinuous earthwork banks perpendicular to the river, and irregular large blocks of earthwork cuttings on an adjacent area depicted as rough ground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/Shaugh-Moor-Streamworks-and-Peat_Scale-800x457.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/Shaugh-Moor-Streamworks-and-Peat_Scale-240x137.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/Shaugh-Moor-Streamworks-and-Peat_Scale-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/Shaugh-Moor-Streamworks-and-Peat_Scale-640x366.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/Shaugh-Moor-Streamworks-and-Peat_Scale.jpg 1102w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Extensive peat cutting (MDV126961) and eluvial streamworks (MDV43389; MDV55260 and MDV127067) on Brisworthy Burrows, Trowelsworthy common and Shaugh Moor. AI&amp;M transcription overlain onto the Ordnance Survey Second Edition 25inch map. The base map is \u00a9 Landmark Information Group. AI&amp;M transcriptions \u00a9 Devon County Council\/Historic England. Contour data is Bluesky International Ltd. \/ Getmapping PLC. \u00a9 Copyright and database rights 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4003\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4003\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV127091-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV127091-240x126.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white oblique aerial photograph, with rectilinear earthwork pits visible in an area of rough ground and sinuous parallel earthwork banks on the right of the frame.\" width=\"240\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV127091-240x126.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV127091-800x419.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV127091-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV127091-1536x804.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV127091-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV127091-640x335.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peat cuttings MDV127091 on Shaugh Moor, with streamworks MDV127067 to right of frame. RAF\/540\/318\/PFFO 0025 22-APR-1950 Source: Historic England Archive. RAF<br \/>Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mapping from lidar data and 1940s RAF aerial photographs has enhanced understanding of tin streaming at Crownhill Down, despite extensive previous fieldwork, not least by increasing the known extent by 4 hectares. The early stages of transition to openwork extraction are suggested by possible <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=255963.9547%2C58817.5931%2C257788.1637%2C60061.7607%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prospecting pits<\/a> along the streamworks, perhaps to rework the lode, and the relationship between the streamworks and a number of historic leats indicates that some water channels pre-dated the streamworks.<\/p>\n<p>Off the higher ground a number of newly identified and extensive streamworks were recorded from lidar. Some of these remains were in areas of former woodland, for example at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV126817&amp;resourceID=104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sparkwell<\/a>. The value of the land here presumably made felling and reclamation more worthwhile than in the uplands where tree cover on former industrial sites seems to have persisted.<\/p>\n<p>The possibility of peat fuel being used for the tin industry is raised by the identification of a large area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV126961&amp;resourceID=104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">peat cuttings at Trowlesworthy Common<\/a>, close to <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=255703.1689%2C64192.1157%2C256984.5414%2C65066.0518%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">streamworks<\/a> and the possible site of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV2588&amp;resourceID=104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brisworthy Tin Mill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4010\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4010\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/DevonportLeat.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4010 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/DevonportLeat-180x240.jpg\" alt=\"A colour ground photograph of a moorland landscape with a curving water channel in the foreground and a person stood next to it.\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/DevonportLeat-180x240.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/DevonportLeat-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/DevonportLeat-640x853.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/DevonportLeat.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A section of the Devonport leat, north of the survey area. C. Hegarty, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Further <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV24933&amp;resourceID=104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leats<\/a> supplying the various modern china clay works around the Dartmoor fringes were visible as earthworks. Their complexity is clear from the transcriptions, and reflect incremental phases of expansion, though some may have been repurposed from earlier uses. Many of these have since been destroyed or subsumed by 20th and 21st century extraction, along with earlier archaeological remains, including for example the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV2450&amp;resourceID=104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enclosed hut circle settlement<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=256429.69%2C63641.3418%2C256678.48%2C63811.0243%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shaugh Moor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Leats with a different purpose &#8211; civic water supply &#8211; can also be traced for many miles across the survey area, and considerable lengths have been mapped from aerial photographs and lidar. These include the late 18th\/early 19th century <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV19893&amp;resourceID=104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Devonport Leat<\/a> and the late 16th century <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV19102&amp;resourceID=104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plymouth Leat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The latter is also known as Drake\u2019s Leat because of the integral part that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV5451&amp;resourceID=104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sir Francis Drake<\/a> played in its construction; according to Hawkins (1987, 7) this interest in local infrastructure followed a fall from favour in Elizabeth I\u2019s court caused by an unsuccessful voyage to Lisbon.<\/p>\n<h2>Modern conflict landscapes<\/h2>\n<p>Aerial survey projects often record considerable evidence of Second World War military activity, stemming from the comprehensive aerial photography carried out in the immediate post-war period. This project also recorded some pre-Second World War defensive sites. Most of these are at <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=248597.7588%2C50611.2353%2C249925.6121%2C51516.8728%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Staddon Heights<\/a>, a focus for military defences protecting Plymouth and the Royal Naval Dockyards since the later 16th century. They include some of \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=248624.5615%2C50603.7913%2C249047.8956%2C50805.2057%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13%3BPublic_Access_440_0%3BPublic_Access_440_1%3BPublic_Access_440_2%3BPublic_Access_440_3%3BPublic_Access_440_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Palmerston\u2019s Follies<\/a>\u2019, late 19th century batteries intended to repel a French invasion but which were never used and have taken on the name of the prime minister of the time.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-5' class='gallery galleryid-3445 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/the-devon-historic-environment-record\/sdcd_aim\/attachment\/staddon_tsc\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"227\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/Staddon_tsc-227x240.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"A greyscale map with colour lines and polygons showing the complexes of structures, linked by banks and ditches, on the high ground and cliff edges.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-5-4132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/Staddon_tsc-227x240.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/Staddon_tsc-567x600.jpg 567w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/Staddon_tsc-768x813.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/Staddon_tsc-640x677.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/Staddon_tsc.jpg 1102w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-5-4132'>\n\t\t\t\tPalimpsest of features identified from aerial photographs at Staddon. AI&amp;M transcriptions \u00a9 Devon County Council\/Historic England. The base map is \u00a9 Crown Copyright and database right 2020. Ordnance Survey 10019783.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/29059_029\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/29059_029-240x160.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"A colour oblique aerial photograph of the rocky coastline south of Plymouth, with tiers of low buildings on the slopes down to the shore. A substantial earthwork ditch is visible to one side, perpendicular to the contour\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-5-4009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/29059_029-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/29059_029-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/29059_029-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/29059_029-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/29059_029-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/29059_029-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/29059_029.jpg 1796w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-5-4009'>\n\t\t\t\tFort Bovisand, Wembury. Part of the 19th and 20th century defences protecting Plymouth Sound. NMR 29059_029 13-JUN-2014 \u00a9 Historic England Archive\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>In addition to the well-studied and imposing 18th and 19th century fortifications, the survey was able to record evidence of more ephemeral activity around the buildings. These include the earthworks of probable 19th century practice trenches adjacent to Staddon Fort, in a plot marked as \u2018Field for Field Works\u2019 on the 1896 OS map, and cropmarks that are thought likely to have formed over the buried remains of <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=249027.4804%2C51089.5844%2C249193.4621%2C51202.7891%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">similar features next to Rifle Butts Wall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4002\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4002\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV109990.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV109990-240x180.jpg\" alt=\"A colour ground photograph taken from one arm of a dispersal pen. The concrete area of hardstanding between the earthworks and an entrance into the embanked bunker are visible.\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV109990-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/09\/MDV109990.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dispersal pen at RAF Harrowbeer (MDV55691). Photograph S. Knight, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many of these structures were refortified in the Second World War, and additional contemporary features were visible on the mid-20th century aerial photographs. These included shelters or practice trenches, a possible radar station, an additional barrage balloon site and temporary camps.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous military camps outside of the Staddon area were also recorded on the HER for the first time (for example in the <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=256893.5928%2C57257.3876%2C257740.2612%2C57660.2165%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13%3BPublic_Access_440_0%3BPublic_Access_440_1%3BPublic_Access_440_2%3BPublic_Access_440_3%3BPublic_Access_440_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gardens of Hemerdon House<\/a> or at <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=270118.893%2C59596.953%2C270965.5613%2C59999.7819%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13%3BPublic_Access_440_0%3BPublic_Access_440_1%3BPublic_Access_440_2%3BPublic_Access_440_3%3BPublic_Access_440_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kerries Road, South Brent<\/a>), changing perceptions of how militarised the survey area had been during the conflict, perhaps due to D-Day preparations and aftermath.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4161\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/ZBattery.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4161 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/ZBattery-240x174.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white aerial photograph, in which hut bases are visible as pale rectangular features, a zig-zag trench is indistinctly visible as an earthwork along the road, and pale areas of compacted ground, or parchmarks, on the location of the rocket projectors, are visible in several adjacent fields.\" width=\"240\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/ZBattery-240x174.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/ZBattery-800x579.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/ZBattery-768x556.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/ZBattery-1536x1112.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/ZBattery-640x463.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/ZBattery.jpg 1653w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Z Battery, Hooe Hill; huts and air raid shelters linked by zig-zag trenches. The oval cropmarks mark the locations of the 64 rocket projectors, the remains of which do not often survive. RAF\/CPE\/UK\/2105 RP 3136 28-MAY-1947. Source: Historic England Archive. RAF Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Previously recorded sites were enhanced and detail added to bombing decoys, an unusual (for Devon) <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=250071.8036%2C51347.4439%2C251352.3255%2C52220.7998%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Z anti-aircraft battery<\/a>, and the airfields of <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=250325.8982%2C67145.5542%2C252887.2386%2C68892.4684%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RAF Harrowbeer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/maptest.devon.gov.uk\/portaldvl\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=82d17ce243be4ab28091ae1f15970924&amp;extent=270696.2493%2C36540.4778%2C273344.518%2C38346.6798%2C27700&amp;showLayers=Watermark_3745%3BWatermark_3745_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_0%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_2%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_12%3BHistoric_Environment_3349_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RAF Bolt Head<\/a>.\u00a0The substantial earthworks and low structural remains of RAF Harrowbeer still cover an extensive area of access land on Roborough Down, although most of the superstructures had been removed by 1951. Operational between 1941 and 1945, this airfield was constructed using rubble from the Plymouth Blitz (Wasley 1994, 90) and has several claims to fame: Major Glenn Miller and band flew into RAF Harrowbeer on the way to Plymouth for a series of concerts on the 28 August 1944 (Wasley 1994, 172), and fog caused President Truman to be diverted here on the way back from the Potsdam conference on the 2nd August 1945. Additional elements that could be recorded from the aerial photographs include the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagegateway.org.uk\/Gateway\/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV126003&amp;resourceID=104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sick quarters<\/a> just south-west of the perimeter, visible as a complex of structures, huts and at least one blast shelter, whose purpose was established with the help of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rafharrowbeer-dartmoor.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RAF Harrowbeer archive<\/a>\u00a0plan of the site.<\/p>\n<h2>Further Reading<\/h2>\n<p><em>The results of the surveys will be found in the project highlight report, which will be accessible and downloadable from the <a href=\"https:\/\/services.historicengland.org.uk\/access-to-research-reports\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Historic England website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Information on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/projects\/national-mapping-project\/\">other NMP projects in Devon<\/a> is also available.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gallant, L, Luxton, N, &amp; Collman, M. 1986 \u2018Ancient Fields on the South Devon Limestone Plateau\u2019. <em>Proceedings of the Devon Archaeological Society<\/em> 43, 1985: 23-37<\/p>\n<p>Gerrard, S. 2000 <em>The Early British Tin Industry<\/em>. Stroud: Tempus<\/p>\n<p>Griffith, F. 1988 <em>Devon\u2019s Past, an Aerial View<\/em>. Exeter: Devon Books<\/p>\n<p>Hawkins, D. J. 1987<em> Water from the Moor: Illustrated History of the Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport Leats<\/em>. Exeter: Devon Books<\/p>\n<p>Hegarty, C, Knight, S, and Sims, R. 2014<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/research.historicengland.org.uk\/Report.aspx?i=15723&amp;ru=%2fResults.aspx%3fp%3d1%26n%3d10%26tsk%3dsouth%2520devon%2520coast%26ns%3d1\" rel=\"noopener\">Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey for South-West England \u2013 South Coast Devon: Component One National Mapping Programme<\/a><\/em>. AC Archaeology Document Number ACD618\/2\/1<\/p>\n<p>Hegarty, C, Knight, S, and Sims, R. Forthcoming <em>The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey Area 1, Haldon Ridge to Dart Valley.<\/em> Historic England Research Department Report<\/p>\n<p>Historic England 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/research\/methods\/airborne-remote-sensing\/aerial-photographs\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Using Aerial Photographs <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newman, P. 1998 <em>The Dartmoor Tin Industry A Field Guide<\/em>. Newton Abbot: Chercombe Press<\/p>\n<p>Silvester, R J. 1980 \u2018The Prehistoric Open Settlement at Dainton, South Devon\u2019. <em>Proceedings of the Devon Archaeological Society<\/em> 38, 17-48<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyTextCopy\">Wasley, G D 1994 <i>Devon at War<\/i>. Exeter: Devon Books<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, D. 1982. <em>Air Photo Interpretation for Archaeologists<\/em>. London: Batsford.<\/p>\n<h2>Your comments<\/h2>\n<p>Would you like to share additional information on any of the sites we recorded from aerial photographs, or do you have a different interpretation? Let us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/\">know!<\/a> We read all submissions but unfortunately due to the volume of responses we are unable to respond personally to every comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This survey aims to assess all readily available aerial photographic sources and lidar derived imagery, to interpret, map and record all visible archaeological sites and landscapes between the narrow coastal strip (previously surveyed as part of the South Devon Coast &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/the-devon-historic-environment-record\/sdcd_aim\/\" aria-label=\"Continue reading South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3445","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 12:49:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4417,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3445\/revisions\/4417"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}