Summary
A series of field gutters for irrigating the pasture survive as earthworks in former fields 136, 137 and 140. There may be the remains of possibly three systems running around the contour on a SE-NW-WSW alignment.
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Monument Types
- DRAIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Description
A series of field gutters for irrigating the pasture survive as earthworks in former fields 136, 137 and 140. There may be the remains of possibly three systems running around the contour on a SE-NW-WSW alignment. All the field gutters would originally have been fed from the stream in the combe, but there is no surviving evidence of the system linking to the combe. Erosion and slippage downhill, tracks and later features have removed the evidence. Some of the field gutters appear to be cut or built over by some of the (now removed) field boundaries. This suggests a date of late eighteenth to early nineteenth century as the boundaries are shown on the tithe map.
The features survive as dips about 0.5m wide in the pasture.
References
- SNA62446 - Report: Nick Berry. 2004. Archaeological and Historic Landscape Survey of Kipscombe Farm, Countisbury, Devon.
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