Palm Cross Green, Modbury

An archaeological evaluation was carried out by Oakford Archaeology on land adjacent to Palm Cross Green, Modbury, Devon (SX 6555 5180), during November 2012. The work comprised the excavation of 25 trenches totalling 635m in length, with each trench 1.6m wide. These targeted a series of anomalies identified during an earlier geophysical survey and provided a spatial sample of those areas that were not available for geophysical survey. Excavation revealed three ditches, two discrete features and the remains of a hedgebank of probable post-medieval date. All the linears and the hedgebank had been identified by the geophysical survey. Evidence for earlier activity was confined to the centre of the site where two undated ditches were exposed. Two further undated discrete features were exposed at the eastern and north-eastern edge of the site.