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Mesolithic, Palaeolithic and EarlierSite Name: Shell Middens at Westward Ho!Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.8 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Devon Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Bideford Nearest Village: Westward Ho!
Map Ref: SS429294
Latitude: 51.042417N Longitude: 4.242335W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Mesolithic shell middens at the south end of Westward Ho! Beach near Bideford, Devon. The midden and preserved tree stumps were visible at an extremely low spring tide in 1988-89. Hazel nutshell and struck flints were seen eroding from the peat and clay deposits. No evidence of the middens remains today.
Source: Hall, T. M., 1863-1872, Privately printed manuscript (Monograph). SDV6210. Mesolithic shell middens at south end of Westward Ho! beach. Author also recorded finds of flint artifacts and faunal and molluscan remains, the first record of mesolithic occupation and activity on this site.
Ellis, H. S., 1866, On a flint find in a submerged forest of Barnstaple Bay, near Westward Ho!., 80-1 (Article in Serial). SDV10002.
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