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Summary

Curvilinear, V-shaped ditch, running through enclosure MDV15290. Bank, 1.0 metre wide by 0.1 metre high, lies on west side of eastern element. Bank 1.5 metres wide by 0.2 metres high on southern side of western element. Western element 85 metres long, 1.0 metres wide, 0.6 metres deep. Eastern element 55 metres long, 0.3 metres wide by 0.3 metres deep. Oriented north-east by south-west.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019084: Partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement and post-medieval warren structures on the western slope of Little and Great Trowlesworthy Tors

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/472

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• DITCH (XVIII to XIX - 1751 AD to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

Haynes, R. G., Map of Trowlesworthy Warren (Cartographic). SDV165949.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140709, (13/04/1995) (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

One six animal runs surviving in close proximity to each other, as a series of separate and interconnected gullies situated within a partially enclosed hut settlement.
C (SX 5761 6422). Irregular in shape and measures 140m long, 1m wide and up to 0.6m deep. This animal run cuts an enclosure in two places. This is site No.102 075 in the National Trust Upper Plym inventory.
These gullies probably represent a complex system of animal runs in which rabbits and vermin could have been trapped.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 156, Map 51.1 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Butler depicts ditch.

National Trust and English Heritage, 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape, 28, 102.075, (estimated 1987) (Report - non-specific). SDV166309.

Curvilinear, V-shaped ditch, running through enclosure MDV15290. Bank, 1.0 metre wide by 0.1 metre high, lies on west side of eastern element. Bank 1.5 metres wide by 0.2 metres high on southern side of western element. Western element 85 metres long, 1.0 metres wide, 0.6 metres deep. Eastern element 55 metres long, 0.3 metres wide by 0.3 metres deep. Oriented north-east by south-west.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Ditch is visible on the aerial photography.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7369 - Survey of Granite Loading Bays at Trowlesworthy, Devon
• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey

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