Site Event/Activity record EEM14654 - 2016: WS - Codsend and Hoar Moors

A walkover survey of land on Hoar Moor and Codsend Moors, south of Dunkery Beacon, Exmoor, was carried out in June and July 2016 as part of the Exmoor Mires Project. The work was carried out in order to characterise, quantify and locate known and unknown heritage assets within the survey area, and to inform future research and management of these assets. The survey area forms part of an extensive historic landscape, characterised by prehistoric settlements and field systems preserved in land which was enclosed in the 18th and 19th Centuries. The area also contains the remains of a mill and four deserted 19th Century farms together with their field systems. The survey located several previously unrecorded prehistoric field boundaries and burial mounds and identified two sites which may be the remains of stockmen’s shelters dating from the early medieval period when the moors were used for summer grazing.