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Summary

Remains of a medieval or later tinners' hut of 6.6 metres by 2 metres with walls 1.5 metres wide by 1.2 metres high and an entrance in the south-eastern wall on the north side of the East Dart River, 250 metres south-east of Sandy Hole Pass

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Extensive earthwork remains of medieval or later streamworking on the East Dart River, centred around Broad Marsh, along with the structural remains of eight tinners' huts

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68SW51
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443996
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SW/68
• 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

Le Messurier, B., 1975, Tinners hut, 28/3/1975 (Worksheet). SDV268270.

Ruined hut. Large ruin with banked up walls on the outside. Fireplace fallen in at south-eastern end. Oriented north-west by south-east. Floor of fallen-in stone. May have been small inner room. A large stone forms one side of the door at the south end. Tin streaming remains in vicinity.

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

SX 62458125. On left bank of East Dart; a hut, internally 2.0 metres by 6.7 metres with a collapsed fireplace and doorway at the south-east end. There may have been an inner chamber at the northwest end.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 153, Map 34, TH1 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Rectangular tinners'hut of circa 7.0 metres by 2.5 metres at the upper end of the steamworks and on the north bank of the river near Sandy Hole Pass. The long narrow building is in good condition with its walls banked up outside and still over a metre high. A doorpost remains at the entrance in the south-east corner.

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

(23/11/1994) The remains of a tinner's building lie on the left bank of the East Dart River, some 250 metres south-east of Sandy Hole Pass, centred at SX6242 8122, in an area of streamworking (MDV16522). The rectangular structure measures 6.6 metres north-west by south-east and 2 metres south-west by north-east. The walls, of coursed moorstone blocks, are 1.5 metres wide and 1.2 metres high. An entrance lies in the south-eastern wall. The possible inner room, described in 1979 is most likely to be the result of tumble from the southwestern wall.

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

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