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Summary

An alleged pillow mound at Eylesbarrow measuring 7m long, 4m wide and 0.9m high.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthwork remains of tin streaming and trial pits at Wheal Katherine Mine

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66NW73
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1063447
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• (Former Type) PILLOW MOUND? (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD (Between) to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1993-1998, Dartmoor Royal Forest Project, H. Chapman (Report - Survey). SDV346608.

(20/10/1994) The mound is 7m long (E to W), 4m wide and 0.9m high. There is a slight ditch, 2m wide and 0.3m deep, around the N and W sides. At the W end there is an area of animal disturbance.
Although within an area of reported 19th and 20th century rabbit warrens the mound is close to an area of tin pits and could therefore be a spoil heap. It is also relatively short and is aligned across the slope rather than up it which would be more unusual for an artificial warren to allow for drainage.

Stanbrook, E., 1994, Crane Hill Rabbit Warren, 16-17 (Article in Serial). SDV274765.

A turf-covered, elongated, ovoid mound lies some 500m N of Wheal Katherine at the W end of Eylesbarrow Tin Mine, at SX 60946861. Stanbrook suggests that it may be one of the pillow mounds of the Crane Hill Warren, which was active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6239 - Eylesbarrow (Ailsborough) Tin Mine
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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