Site Event/Activity record EEM14765 - 2017: WS - Castle Common

Technique(s)

Organisation

Hazel Riley

Date

November 2017

Description

A walkover survey was carried out in November 2017 in advance of Mire restoration to be carried out by the Exmoor Mires Partnership. The work was carried out in order to characterise, quantify and locate known and unknown heritage assets within the defined survey areas.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Report: Riley, H.. 2018. Archaeological walkover survey: Wallover Down, South Regis Common, Castle Common and Fullaford Down. Hazel Riley.

Map

Location

Location Castle Common, Challacombe, Devon
Grid reference Centred SS 7085 3914 (387m by 297m)
Map sheet SS73NW
Civil Parish BRAYFORD, NORTH DEVON, DEVON
Civil Parish CHALLACOMBE, NORTH DEVON, DEVON

Related Monuments/Buildings (8)

  • 19th or 20th Century drainage system on Castle Common (Monument)
  • Bronze Age burial cairn, and/or medieval or post-medieval boundary marker on Castle Common (Monument)
  • Disputed late prehistoric hut circles east of Shoulsbarrow Castle (Non-antiquity)
  • Medieval or post-medieval peat cutting on Castle Common (Monument)
  • Medieval or post-medieval peat stand or boundary marker on Castle Common (Monument)
  • Medieval or post-medieval peat stand or boundary marker on Castle Common (Monument)
  • Medieval or post-medieval peat stand or boundary marker on Castle Common (Monument)
  • Possible late prehistoric hut circle on Castle Common (Non-antiquity)

Parent/preceding Site Events/Activities (1)

  • 2017: WS - South Regis Common

Child/subsequent Site Events/Activities (1)

Record last edited

Jun 27 2022 1:22PM