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MONUMENT NO. 444215

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A collection of nineteen pillow mounds varying in size from 12m to 22.5m in length with an average width of 5.3m and height of 1m. Only two appear to have ditches.

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SX 630935. Warren; 17 pillow-mounds (in two groups) at Skaigh, South Tawton. (Name Skaigh Warren at SX 635936). Not visible on air photographs. (1-2)

On a north facing slope between 310.0m OD are nineteen pillow mounds, centred at SX 62959338, mostly visible on (a). They vary in length from 22.5m to 12.0m with an average width of 5.3m and height of 1.0m. All but one have ditches which average 1.5m wide and 0.2m deep. Only two pillow mounds have continuous ditches visible, the remainder do not appear to have ditches on their lower sides. (See also SX 69 SW 40).

Surveyed at 1:2500 on AM. (3)

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( 1) Medieval archaeology : journal of the Society for Medieval Archaeology

10, 1966 Page(s)113-144

( 2) Aerial photograph

APs (RAF CPE/UK/1995 4189-90 13.4.47)

( 3a) Aerial photograph

AP (OS 157 77/105)

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 NJA 27-JAN-78

(4) Scheduled Monument Notification

07-Jun-2000

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