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Summary

A pointed-topped boundary stone 1.35 metres high, 0.30 metres square, with 'PCWW' above '1917' on north face. Several similar stones run north-north-east from Eylesbarrow along the Dartmoor Forest/Walkhampton parish boundary to Nun's Cross.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE207
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 925729
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/551

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BOUNDARY STONE (XIX to World War I - 1900 AD to 1917 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

'Boundary stone' indicated on Ordnance Survey 6 inch (1906) but not on Ordnance Survey 6 inch (1954).

Brewer, D., 1986, Boundary Stone, 9-10, 84 (Correspondence). SDV250800.

Burrator reservoir was built across the Meavy by the Plymouth Corporation Water Works and opened in September 1898. Land has been purchased so that waters draining into the Meavy above the dam were all captured and the bounds of this land is now marked by a number of boundary stones. These were not erected until between 1917 and 1932. All are dated and inscribed with the initials `PCWW' (Brewer 1986 84).

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

(01/11/1994) SX 59966859. A pointed-topped boundary stone lies on the crest of the hill immediately NW of Eylesbarrow. It measures 1.35m high and 0.30m square with the letters PCWW above 1917 on the north face. Several similar stones (SX 66 NW 90-95) run NNE fron Eylesbarrow along the Dartmor Forest/Walkhampton Parish boundary to Nun's Cross.
Adjacent to the stone is an unshaped granite block with an embedded iron spike. The spike is circular in section and has a flattened head. This feature marks the boundary of Dartmoor Forest, Sheepstor and Walkhampton parishes (Brewer 1986, 9-10).

Wessex Archaeology, 2002, Cramber Tor Training Area Rapid Condition Survey, WA148 (Report - Survey). SDV354588.

Cramber Tor Survey 2002, Site WA148.

Newman, P., 2006, Cramber Tor Training Area Archaeological Field Investigation (Report - Survey). SDV233640.

(01/08/2006) As described in 1994.

Newman, P., 2007, Cramber Tor Training Area Monument Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV348210.

Probert, S., 2008, Follow-Up Works to Cramber Tor Archaeological Baseline Condition Survey, Dartmoor Training Area (Report - Survey). SDV351304.

Greeves, T., 2012, Cramber Tor Training Area. Monument Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV350251.

Probert, S. A. J., 2017, A Condition Survey of the Archaeological Sites of the Cramber Tor Training Area, Devon, 2017 (Report - Survey). SDV360392.

Newman, P., 2021, Archaeological Sites within Cramber Tor Training Area, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: A condition survey on behalf of Defence Infrastructure Organisation February 2021 (Report - Survey). SDV364449.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7382 - Condition Survey of the Cramber Tor Training Area
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey: EH Project (Feb 2001 - Dec 2002)
• EDV8711 - Condition Survey of the Cramber Tor Training Area
• EDV6034 - Monument Condition Survey in Cramber Tor Training Area
• EDV6152 - Follow-up Works to Threatened Sites in the Cramber Tor Training Area
• EDV6153 - Monument Baseline Condition Survey in the Cramber Tor Training Area

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