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Summary

Three axial reaves forming part of the Dartmeet Parallel Reave System follow an approximate NE to SW course through Huccaby Newtake. The turf covered stony banks measure on average 2.0m wide and 0.6m high. The long rectangular enclosures created by these reaves do not appear to be sub-divided and there is no evidence of contemporary settlement.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Remains of prehistoric field systems and hut circle settlements, as well as funerary monuments above the Cherry Brook Valley, medieval field systems around Huccaby Rings and deserted Coxlake farmstead as well as the Brimpts Tin Mine leat

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NE219
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1065557
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SE/497

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• COAXIAL FIELD SYSTEM (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
• REAVE (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV272678.

Des=greeves, t. /huccaby farm, dartmoor: a preliminary archaeological survey/(1984)/in pf. Vis--/-/1984 (greeves) one of 3 major prehistoric reaves crossing huccaby newtake on approx ne-sw orientation (greeves).

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

Recorded by RCHM.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(24/10/1988) The remains of three parallel reaves (a, b and c) and fragmentary field walls (d) situated at a maximum height of about 375m OD on an open moorland ridge about 1.5Km SW of Laughter Tor.
(c) SX 66237405 to SX 66317421. On the lower SE facing slopes the remains of the reave here are predominantly a turf covered partly stony bank merging into an E facing scarp 0.2m high on the uphill side and 0.7m maximum on the lower side and up to 1.5m wide. It peters out at its N end and also at the S where it has been destroyed by a leat.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, Map 28 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Depicted by Butler.

Probert, S. A. J. + Newman, P., 1997, Holne Moor, Dartmoor, Devonshire. A Landscape Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (Report - Survey). SDV173671.

(03/12/1996) Centred SX 657739. Three axial reaves forming part of the Dartmeet Parallel Reave System (locally SX 67 SE 95) follow an approximate NE to SW course through Huccaby Newtake. The turf covered stony banks measure on average 2.0m wide and 0.6m high. The long rectangular enclosures created by these reaves do not appear to be sub-divided and there is no evidence of contemporary settlement though two small sub-circular encloses (SX 67 SE 21 and 166) one with an adjacent hut circle lie within the newtake.
Two similar though fragmentary reaves (SX 67 SE 193) conforming to the same axis lie 600m to the S in the in-bye of Huccaby Farm.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV3462 - Survey at Huccaby Farm, Lydford
• EDV8634 - Brimpts Farm, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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