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Summary

Remains of a medieval or later tinner's hut of 4.8 metres by 2.1 metres with walls 1.2 metres wide by 0.5 metres high situated on the east bank of the East Dart River

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Structural remains of a medieval or later tinners' hut by the East Dart River

Other References/Statuses

• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443974
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SW/64
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX68SW37
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Crossing, W., 1912 (1965), Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, 487 (Monograph). SDV320981.

National Monuments Record, 1969, SX6085, 127-146 (Aerial Photograph). SDV267436.

Photograph taken on 12th April 1969.

Le Messuerier, B., 1975, Tinners huts (Worksheet). SDV268721.

Visited on 12th September 1975. Ruined hut orientation: south-south-west to north-north-east. Walls are heather-grown. Rushy interior. Fireplace or cupboard at north end, but covered by vegetation. Tin streaming carried on here. Preserved by its remoteness. Measures 4.9 metres by 2.1 metres.

Le Messurier, B., 1979, Post-Prehistoric Structures of Central North Dartmoor. A Field Survey, 66-77 (Article in Serial). SDV269283.

Report as in 1975 now published.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX68SW37, SX68SW37 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV267442.

(02/10/1979) ASX 60988458. In an area of tin-streaming is the heather-covered remains of a probable tinners' hut in fair condition and as described by Le Messurier, except that no fireplace is visible. The drystone walling is 0.5m high and 1.2m wide with an entrance to the east. (Extent of tin-streaming shown on 1:10 000 map).
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD. See ground photograph.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Visible on NMR 1969 aerial photograph, its position and orientation are different on the 1:10560, 1954 OS map.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 153, Map 34, TH10 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Tinners' hut of 4.9 metres by 2.2 metres on the east bank of the East Dart River to the west of Whitehorse Hill.

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

(01/08/1995) The remains of this tinners hut lie in deep reed and grass vegetation on a slight island in the river bed.

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

(20/10/2003) Feature is generally as previously described.

English Heritage, 2005, Survey Information (miscellaneous date) (Report - Survey). SDV345855.

Rectangular building shown on survey.

Ordnance Survey, 2023, Mastermap 2023 (Cartographic). SDV365227.

'Tinners Hut' shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• 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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