Site Event/Activity record EEM14512 - 2014: WS - Larkbarrow Farm
Technique(s)
Organisation
South West Archaeology
Date
March/April 2014
Description
South West Archaeology Ltd. was engaged by the Historic Environment Officer for the Exmoor Mire Project to undertake a non-intrusive walkover survey of the proposed mire restoration area on Larkbarrow Farm, Exmoor (NGR: SS 8202 4290). The results of this walkover survey will help to mitigate the threats that the proposed drainage ditch blocking may pose to the historic environment. The survey also aimed to identify archaeological features which might require further mitigation work prior to the blocking of drainage ditches.
In total, 104 features were recorded during this walkover survey, of which 94 were wholly unknown. These included mineral extraction works, holloways, hollows and pits, mounds, and a series of individual stones. Some of these monuments are worthy of further recording prior to any ditch blocking activity. The principal features, as plotted from LiDAR data, were shell holes derived from the use of the northern part of the site as a firing range during World War Two.
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1> SEM8124 Report: Morris, B.. 2014. Larkbarrow Farm, Exmoor: Results of a walkover survey.
Location
Location | Larkbarrow Farm, Exmoor, Somerset |
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Grid reference | Centred SS 8159 4293 (2316m by 3021m) (Surveyed) |
Map sheet | SS84SW |
Civil Parish | EXMOOR, WEST SOMERSET, SOMERSET |
Related Monuments/Buildings (41)
- MEM24497 Possible Prehistoric Standing Stone or Rubbing Stone on Larkbarrow (Monument)
- MSO10155 19th Century prospecting pit or quarry northeast of Larkbarrow Corner (Monument)
- MSO10166 19th Century quarry east of Larkbarrow (Monument)
- MSO10167 19th Century quarry southeast of Larkbarrow (Monument)
- MSO6887 Bronze Age burial cairn northeast of Kittuck Meads stone setting (Monument)
- MSO6881 Kittuck Hill Stone Setting (Monument)
- MEM24505 Possible Post Medieval Hollow Way on Madacombe (Monument)
- MEM24522 Possible post-medieval hollow way south of Tom's Farm (Monument)
- MSO10144 Possible prehistoric burial cairn on Kittuck Hill (Monument)
- MEM24511 Possible Prehistoric Burial Cairn on Kittuck's Hill (Monument)
- MEM24512 Possible Prehistoric Burial Cairn on Kittuck's Hill (Monument)
- MEM24518 Possible Prehistoric Cairn on Kittucks Hill (Monument)
- MEM24502 Possible Prehistoric Circular Enclosure on Kitticks Mead (Monument)
- MEM24492 Possible Prehistoric Standing Stone on Kittucks Mead (Monument)
- MEM24504 Possible Prehistoric Standing Stone overlooking Madacombe (Monument)
- MEM24508 Possible Second World War Feature or Undated Hollow on Kittuck's Mead. (Monument)
- MEM24521 Possible Second World War Target Mound South of Tom's Farm (Monument)
- MEM24513 Possible Second World War Target on Kittuck's Hill (Monument)
- MEM24514 Possible Second World War Target on Kittuck's Hill (Monument)
- MEM24515 Possible Second World War Target on Kittuck's Hill (Monument)
- MEM24516 Possible Second World War Target on Kittuck's Hill (Monument)
- MEM24491 Second World War Shell Crater on Kittucks Mead (Monument)
- MEM24501 Second World War Shell Crater on Kittucks Mead (Monument)
- MEM24490 Second World War Shell Crater on Larkbarrow (Monument)
- MEM24489 Second World War Shell Craters on Larkbarrow (Monument)
- MEM24520 Second World War Shell Hole southeast of Tom's Farms (Monument)
- MEM24503 Two Possible Second World War Shell Craters on Kittucks Mead (Monument)
- MSO12213 Undated circular feature at Three Combes Foot (Monument)
- MEM24495 Undated hollow on Kittucks Mead (Monument)
- MEM24494 Undated hollow on Kittucks Mean (Monument)
- MEM24496 Undated hollow on Larkbarrow (Monument)
- MSO11415 Undated mound near Larkbarrow (Monument)
- MEM24519 Undated Mound on Kittuck's Hill (Monument)
- MEM24507 Undated Mound on Kittuck's Mead (Monument)
- MEM24509 Undated Mound on Kittuck's Mead (Monument)
- MEM24517 Undated Pit on Kittuck's Hill (Monument)
- MEM24506 Undated Platform near Tom's Farm (Monument)
- MEM24500 Undated Possible Shell Crater on Kittucks Mead (Monument)
- MEM24498 Undated Possible Shell Crater on Larkbarrow (Monument)
- MEM24499 Undated Possible Shell Crater on Larkbarrow (Monument)
- MEM24493 Undated surface stone on Kittucks Mead (Non-antiquity)
Child/subsequent Site Events/Activities (1)
- EEM14669 2014-2015: WS - Larkbarrow, Mires Project
Record last edited
Aug 17 2018 4:07PM