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Summary

One of a row of at least a dozen, arranged along the banks of Spanish Lake. Warren dates to the early 19th century and was worked with Hentor Warren until the 1930s. Mound measures 11.6 metres by 4 metres by 0.6 metres high.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019083: Medieval farmstead and field system, length of Willings Walls Reave, four round cairns, a ring cairn and pillow mounds at Willings Walls Warren

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• PILLOW MOUND (XIX to World War II - 1807 AD to 1939 AD (Between))

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140750, 15/4/1995 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Pillow mound D at SX58186452. Measures 11.6 metres by 4 metres by 0.6 metres high. The surrounding ditch survives as a 3 metre wide and 0.2 metre deep hollow along the north and eastern sides of the mound and elsewhere as a buried feature.

Ordnance Survey, 2015, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV357601.

Depicted on the modern mapping.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, UP-HT3 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(11/03/2020) Condition assessed as Moderate; vegetation growth is main damage agent.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs (Photograph). SDV363073.

Image taken during March 2020 visit.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey

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