A dry, Y-shaped, depression is visible in this field on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. It is 100m long and measures 13m across at its narrow, eastern end, and flares out to 60m wide at its western end. The flared end is adjacent to a field drain and it is possible that the depression joins into this drain. This drain is shown on historic Ordnance Survey mapping [2] but examination of recent aerial photographs indicates that it has since been removed and the depression itself levelled [3].

This feature may represent a former drainage channel which may be associated with the reclamation of land from the Wantsum Channel during the medieval and earlier post-medieval periods.

A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [4].

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1862-1875, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1862-1875 (Map). SWX11831.

<3> Google Earth, viewed on 02/06/2010 (Graphic material). SWX15704.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.

<4> Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE25954.