This collection comprises images, site records, and GIS data from an archaeological watching brief at Highlands Farm, Combe Martin, Ilfracombe, Devon. This work was undertaken by ISCA Archaeology in May 2023 during groundworks associated with the installation of a new farm track.

The trackway lies within an area of high archaeological potential that the Devon Historic Environment Record shows containing a concentration of prehistoric funerary monuments, some of which are protected as scheduled monuments. Some 150m to the east lies a square ditch enclosure, identified by aerial photography. As such, the development may have had the potential to expose and destroy buried archaeological and artefactual deposits associated with either prehistoric or Romano-British activity and/or later medieval and post-medieval activity.

The groundworks consisted of an area strip comprising of the trackway alone, with no additional ground works. The soil sequence consisted of a mid grey-brown, firm, silty clay topsoil overlying three deposits, which varied across the trackway. At the western-most end was a hardstanding of redeposited shillet containing modern plastics. To the eastern-most end, the topsoil sealed a layer of tarmac surface containing modern ceramics. Elsewhere within the excavated trackway, the topsoil overlay a natural substrate comprising of a light to mid brown-red firm clay with shillet inclusions.

No archaeological features or deposits were observed, and no artefactual material was recovered. Although no archaeological features were noted, there remains the possibility of their existence remaining outside of the area excavated and monitored.