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Prehistoric coaxial field system and cairns is a Bronze Age landscape monument located on Peek Hill in Devon, part of the wider archaeological complex encompassing RAF Sharpitor. The site comprises a coaxial field system, characterised by parallel boundaries oriented in aligned directions, together with scattered cairns that are consistent with Bronze Age funerary or ritual practice. Such field systems represent organised land division and are indicative of agricultural intensification during the later prehistoric period. The monument's survival within the modern military installation preserves an important record of Bronze Age settlement patterns and land use in the South West peninsula.
Prehistoric coaxial field system and cairns, an historic enclosure and part of RAF Sharpitor, situated on and around Peek Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020238. View the official record →
Prehistoric coaxial field system and cairns is a Bronze Age landscape monument located on Peek Hill in Devon, part of the wider archaeological complex encompassing RAF Sharpitor. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020238.
Prehistoric coaxial field system and cairns, an historic enclosure and part of RAF Sharpitor, situated on and around Peek Hill is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1020238.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two cairns with stone rows E of Collard Tor on Wotter Common (8 km), Two round barrows on Ridding Down (9 km), Cholwich Town Cross: a wayside cross between Quick Bridge and Tolchmoor Gate (9.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Prehistoric coaxial field system and cairns, an historic enclosure and part of RAF Sharpitor, situated on and around Peek Hill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Prehistoric coaxial field system and cairns, an historic enclosure and part of RAF Sharpitor, situated on and around Peek Hill stands on Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.