Source/Archive record SEM6823 - Exmoor Mire Restoration Project: Archaeological Survey on Moorland Areas at Alderman's Barrow Allotment, Blackpitts-Exe Head, North Twitchen, Roosthitchen and Verney's Allotment

Type Report
Title Exmoor Mire Restoration Project: Archaeological Survey on Moorland Areas at Alderman's Barrow Allotment, Blackpitts-Exe Head, North Twitchen, Roosthitchen and Verney's Allotment
Author/Originator
Date/Year 2008
Publisher Cornwall County Council Historic Environment Service (Projects)
ENPA project name Mires
Cornwall Council report number 2008R026

Please read the Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record .

Abstract/Summary

Identification and plotting of new archaeological sites at Alderman's Barrow Allotment, Blackpitts-Exe Head, North Twitchen, Roosthitchen and Verney's Allotment, in order to plan for mire restoration work.

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Referenced Monuments (76)

  • Bronze Age barrow on North Twitchen (Monument)
  • Firing Range on Porlock Common (Monument)
  • Medieval and / or post-medieval trackway on western boundary of Exmoor Forest (Monument)
  • Peat Cutting, Black Mires (Monument)
  • Peat Cutting, Black Mires (Monument)
  • Peat Cutting, Black Mires above Weir Water (Monument)
  • Peat Cutting, South of Long Holcombe (Monument)
  • Peat Cutting, West of Blackpitts Farm (Monument)
  • Possible Bronze Age barrow on North Twitchen (Monument)
  • Possible Bronze Age burial or post-medieval clearance cairn on North Twitchen (Monument)
  • Possible Medieval-Post Medieval Field System on Alderman's Barrow Allotment (Monument)
  • Possible Post Medieval Extractive Pit on North Twitchen (Monument)
  • Possible Post Medieval Linear Stony Mound on the east of Alderman's Barrow Allotment (Monument)
  • Possible Post Medieval Linear Stony Mound on the East of Alderman's Barrow Allotment (Monument)
  • Possible Post Medieval Mound on Verney's Allotment. (Monument)
  • Possible Post Medieval Prospecting Pit on Verney's Allotment (Monument)
  • Possible Post Medieval Prospecting Pit on Verney's Allotment (Monument)
  • Possible post-medieval clearance cairn on North Twitchen (Monument)
  • Possible post-medieval clearance cairn on North Twitchen (Monument)
  • Possible post-medieval clearance cairn on North Twitchen (Monument)
  • Possible post-medieval or 20th Century ditches west of Blackpitts (Monument)
  • Possible post-medieval peat cutting on North Twitchen (Monument)
  • Possible post-medieval peat cutting on Roosthichen (Monument)
  • Possible post-medieval peat cutting on Roosthichen (Monument)
  • Possible Prehistoric or Later Field Boundary on Black Mires (Monument)
  • Possible Undated Boundary Stone on Roosthichen (Monument)
  • Possible Undated Hollow Way on Roosthitchen (Monument)
  • Possible Undated Mound or Prehistoric Barrow on Verney's Allotment. (Monument)
  • Post Medieval area of Peat Cutting on Porlock Allotment. (Monument)
  • Post Medieval Cluster of Peat Cutting on Porlock Allotment (Monument)
  • Post Medieval Drainage Ditches on Verney's Allotment. (Monument)
  • Post Medieval Enclosure on Verney's Allotment (Monument)
  • Post Medieval Peat Cutting in North Twitchen (Monument)
  • Post Medieval Peat Cutting on Exe Plain (Monument)
  • Post Medieval Peat Cutting on Porlock Allotment (Monument)
  • Post Medieval Peat Cutting on Porlock Allotment (Monument)
  • Post Medieval Peat Cutting on Porlock Allotment (Monument)
  • Post Medieval Peat Cutting on Roosthichen (Monument)
  • Post Medieval Quarry on Verney's Allotment (Monument)
  • Post Medieval Quarry on Verney's Allotment (Monument)
  • Post Medieval Quarry on Verney's Allotment (Monument)
  • Post Medieval Quarry on Verney's Allotment (Monument)
  • Post Medieval Quarry on Verney's Allotment (Monument)
  • Post-medieval field boundary on the east side of Roosthitchen (Monument)
  • Post-medieval peat cutting at Blackpitts (Monument)
  • Post-medieval peat cutting baulk on Blackpitts (Monument)
  • Post-medieval peat cutting on Exe Plain (Monument)
  • Post-medieval peat cutting on Exe Plain (Monument)
  • Post-medieval peat cutting on Kittuck Meads (Monument)
  • Post-medieval peat cutting on North Twitchen (Monument)
  • Post-medieval peat cutting on North Twitchen (Monument)
  • Post-medieval peat cutting on North Twitchen (Monument)
  • Post-medieval peat cutting on North Twitchen (Monument)
  • Post-medieval peat cutting on North Twitchen (Monument)
  • Post-Medieval Quarry and Spoil Heap on the East of Alderman's Barrow Allotment (Monument)
  • Post-medieval quarry on Exe Plain (Monument)
  • Post-medieval quarry on North Twitchen (Monument)
  • Simonsbath to Porlock Railway (Monument)
  • Undated Boundary on Roosthitchen (Monument)
  • Undated Boundary on the East Side of Roosthitchen (Monument)
  • Undated Ditch on Alderman's Barrow Allotment (Monument)
  • Undated Field Boundary at Verney's Allotment. (Monument)
  • Undated Hollow Way on Verney's Allotment (Monument)
  • Undated metalled area on North Twitchen (Monument)
  • Undated mound on Alderman's Barrow Allotment (Monument)
  • Undated mound on Porlock Allotment (Monument)
  • Undated Mound on Roosthichen (Monument)
  • Undated Mound on Roosthitchen (Monument)
  • Undated Mound on the East of Alderman's Barrow Allotment (Monument)
  • Undated Mounds on Roostitchen (Monument)
  • Undated Pit on Alderman's Barrow Allotment (Monument)
  • Undated stone on Roosthichen (Monument)
  • Undated Stone on Roosthitchen (Monument)
  • Undated Stone on Roostitchen (Monument)
  • Walled Structure, West of Black Mires (Monument)
  • World War Two searchlight battery at Blackpitts (Monument)

Referenced Events (6)

  • 2008: WS - Alderman's Barrow Allotment, Mires Project
  • 2008: WS - Exe Head-Blackpitts, Mires Project
  • 2008: WS - North Twitchen, Mires Project
  • 2008: WS - Porlock Allotment, Mires Project
  • 2008: WS - Roosthitchen, Mires Project
  • 2008: WS - Verney's Allotment, Mires Project

Record last edited

May 18 2021 10:49AM