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Summary

Infantry redoubt latterly used an artillery target. The monument comprises a crescentic turf and stone bank on average 3.5m wide and a maximum of 1.3m high. It measures 31m overall and possesses a ditch 1.4m wide and 0.4m deep adjacent to its outer, northern, face. The area partially enclosed by the bank was apparently stripped of turf which was presumably used in the construction of the bank.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX69SW60
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 831667
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX69SW/277

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• TARGET (Constructed, Post Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1540 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))

Full description

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

(10/08/1993) SX 60199032. A military earthwork located on the edge of a slight shelf in the moderate, lower east facing slope of East Mill Tor.
The monument comprises a crescentic turf and stone bank on average 3.5m wide and a maximum of 1.3m high. It measures 31m overall and possesses a ditch 1.4m wide and 0.4m deep adjacent to its outer, northern, face. The area partially enclosed by the bank was apparently stripped of turf which was presumably used in the construction of the bank.
This monument resembles an infantry redoubt and lies in a former artillery impact area. Whatever its early use it latterly functioned as a target butt.
Two similar earthworks (SX 58 NE 18 and SX 59 SE 31) are visible on the west and north flanks of East Mill Tor.

Probert, S. A. J. + Newman, P., 2003-2004, Measured survey North Dartmoor Military Range Okehampton Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey, S. Probert (Report - Survey). SDV350801.

(02/02/2004) This feature remains as described in 1993 and is under no threat.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7620 - Okehampton Artillary Range
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8679 - Okehampton Range: Management Survey
• EDV8291 - Okehampton Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey
• EDV8695 - Survey of Okehampton North Dartmoor Military Range

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