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Summary

At least four features recorded within this area; see associated records.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1016145: A prehistoric settlement with cairns and a historic tin mill, streamwork and buildings lying adjacent to the Langcombe Brook

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66NW169
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1355726
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NW/207
• Old SAM Ref: 28787

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• TINNERS HUT (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD (Between) to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140553 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(09/05/1996) SX 6027 6706 Five tinners' buildings within the Langcombe Brook alluvial streamwork.
[Gerrard gives no further detail for this record; may have been originally intended as a parent record. Richards, A. F., 10/01/2022].

Robertson, J. G., 1991, The Archaeology of the Upper Plym (Post-Graduate Thesis). SDV166324.

our structures depicted and described by Robertson.

Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape, 295-6/102.1082 (Report - non-specific). SDV143510.

Cranstone, D. + Hedley, I., 1995, Monuments Protection Programme: The Tin Industry Step 3 Site Assessments, Devon 43 (Report - non-specific). SDV357946.

Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J., 2002, Plym Valley survey, 1355726 (Report - Survey). SDV350782.

Centred SX 60306704. Two tinners huts and two other, more recent, structures within the streamworking remains on the right bank of the Langcombe Brook.
SX 60316705. Tinners hut built into the streamworking debris. It measures 3.6m NW to SE by 2.3m internally with an entrance in the centre of the NW wall. The surviving walls stand 1.2m high.
SX 60306702. Rectangular tinners hut measuring 4.3m N to S by 2.8m internally with coursed boulder and block walls 0.9m wide and 0.8m high.
SX 60316706. Well-constructed drystone wall 5.0m long and 1.2m high. This feature appears relatively modern and serves no obvious purpose.
SX 60296706. Amorphous and poorly built shelter measuring 3.0m E to W by 2.5m. Probably of recent origin. [See associated records].

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape

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