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| HER Number: | MDV5833 |
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| Name: | Reave between Lower White Tor and Chittaford Down |
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Summary
Previously noted as a trackway, Fleming believes this to be part of the Great Central Reave.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 631 793 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX67NW |
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| Admin Area | Dartmoor National Park |
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| Civil Parish | Dartmoor Forest |
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| District | West Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | LYDFORD |
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Protected Status
- SHINE: Earthwork remains of part of the 19th century leat supplying Powder Mills gunpowder factory, as well as a leat and reave on Chittaford Down
- SHINE: Earthwork section of the Great Central Reave on Chittaford Down
Other References/Statuses
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NW/2
- SHINE Candidate (Yes)
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- REAVE (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC)
Full description
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV265238.
Osa=sx67nw5. Vis=14/7/1950 (os). Ancient trackway. A stone trackway crosses bear down, south of devil tor. It crosses the hill from east to west and is made of large rough slabs laid not quite close together, but a mans stride apart (crawford). R. H. Worth says that: "this is a reeve (or bank) not a trackway" (worth)(os).
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV265239.
Fleming, a. /pps/44(1978)97-123/the prehistoric landscape of dartmoor. This is a section of the "great central reave"(fleming).
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV265240.
Des=greeves, t. /middle merripit survey drawing/(-/2/1983)/in parish file.
Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV265241.
Aph=raf 540/483/4048-4049(24/4/1951).
Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV265242.
Aph=nmr sx6179/4/42-54(12/4/1969).
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.
Described as a path on the 1954 Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 scale map sheet, but looks like a reave on RAF 1951 and NMR 1969 aerials.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV265238 | Migrated Record: |
| SDV265239 | Migrated Record: |
| SDV265240 | Migrated Record: |
| SDV265241 | Aerial Photograph: |
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| SDV265242 | Aerial Photograph: |
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| SDV319854 | Cartographic: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1985. Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP. Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England Aerial Photograph P. Cartographic. |
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Associated Monuments
| MDV5932 | Related to: Cairn with cist on Chittaford Down, Dartmoor Forest (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- EDV8648 - Middle Merripit Farm, Duchy Farms Survey
- EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
| Date Last Edited: | Jul 17 2023 4:29PM |
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