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Summary

Piles (or pyles) corner. Vis=10/12/1980 (hankin). There is an early 17th c. Record of 'tin' at pyles corner. The present site named on the os maps as 'piles corner' is at sx64776215. The ground here is not at all 'tin country'. This is at the ne angle of the wall enclosing 'higher piles', formerly known in 18th c. As 'new piles'. The adjoining medieval enclosure on the south, now known as 'lower piles' was formerly, in 18th c. Known as 'higher and lower old piles'. If the present higher piles was enclosed in 17th c. - as seems possible - 'piles corner' could have been then at the angle of the wall enclosing the then-named 'higher old piles' at sx64646120. The stream piles brook rises here, and at its head there are signs of probably man-made disturbance to its bed. This could be the tin site known as 'pyles corner'.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthwork remains of a field system with possible prehistoric origins surrounding Lower Piles deserted medieval farmstead, as well as a prehistoric cairn and industrial streamworking along Piles Brook and the River Erme

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SW/115

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• STREAMWORK (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD)

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV144119.

Des=t. A. P. Greeves' record of early tin workings.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV144120.

Des=wdro (parish records).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV144121.

Des=worksheet.

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV144122.

Aph=sx6463/3(12/4/1969).

Hankin, C. F., 1977-1980, Harford Parish Checklist (Worksheet). SDV149931.

Piles (or pyles) corner. Vis=10/12/1980 (hankin). There is an early 17th c. Record of 'tin' at pyles corner. The present site named on the os maps as 'piles corner' is at sx64776215. The ground here is not at all 'tin country'. This is at the ne angle of the wall enclosing 'higher piles', formerly known in 18th c. As 'new piles'. The adjoining medieval enclosure on the south, now known as 'lower piles' was formerly, in 18th c. Known as 'higher and lower old piles'. If the present higher piles was enclosed in 17th c. - as seems possible - 'piles corner' could have been then at the angle of the wall enclosing the then-named 'higher old piles' at sx64646120. The stream piles brook rises here, and at its head there are signs of probably man-made disturbance to its bed. This could be the tin site known as 'pyles corner'.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Area of disturbed ground along Piles Brook, presumably deriving from streamworking but with no major spoilheaps visible.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8770 - Archaeological Survey: Ugborough Premier Archaeological Lanscape, Harford and Ugborough

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