Recent heatwave reveals a historic farm in Devon

Recent heatwave reveals a historic farm in Devon

This summer’s hot, dry weather has revealed cropmarks in a field in Bicton that show a Romano-British farmstead once stood there.

Aerial photography of the farmstead, originally discovered by former Devon County Archaeologist Frances Griffith in 1984, has been released by Historic England.

The cropmarks suggest the field in Bicton may have contained farm buildings surrounded by...