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Summary

Northern of two post medieval tinner's huts of 5.2 metres by 2 metres with walls up to 0.2 metres high situated within an area of streamworks on the west bank of Summer Brook to the south of Flat Tor. An entrance gap lies in the eastern wall.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthwork remains of medieval or later streamworks on the West Dart River and its tributaries, as well as structural remains of three tinners' huts

Other References/Statuses

• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443962
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SW/74/1
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX68SW33
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• TINNERS HUT (Built, Post Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1540 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))

Full description

Le Messurier, B., 1976, Field visit (Worksheet). SDV320991.

Ruined hut. Oriented NE-SW. Rectangular outline of hut base. Walls low. Really only foundations. Barely noticeable. Floor of grass. Tin streaming not far away. Five metres N of PRN 7773. Internal dimensions 4.9m x 2.3m, wall thickness 0.6m, height 0.3m.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX68SW33, SX68SW33 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV268279.

(30/10/1979) Situated in an area of tin-streaming are the very poor remains of two turf-and heather-covered tinners' huts, joined by a 0.2m high rubble wall.
The second hut, at SX 60538054, measures 2.6m by 5.2m internally with walling of similar dimensions and a central cross passage. (Extent of tin-streaming shown on 1:10 000 map)
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD. See ground photographs.

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

Not visible on 1947 RAF AP.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 153, Map 34, TH11 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Tinners' hut of circa 4.5 metres by 2.2 metres on the west bank of Summer Brook to trhe south of Flat Tor.

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

(04/12/1994) Two tinner's buildings lie on the left bank of Summer Brook, centred at SX 60538054, in an area of streamworking (See SX 68 SW 123). The northern building (SX 60538054) is a rectangular structure 5.2m N-S and 2m E-W. The walls, of coursed moorstone blocks two courses high, are 0.5m wide and 0.2m high. An entrance gap lies in the eastern wall. Some 8m to the south lies a second ruined building, at SX 60528053.

Newman, P., 2004, Merrivale Range Baseline Condition Survey, P. Newman (Report - Survey). SDV346874.

(15/12/2004) As described in 1994. Sited in an area of short grass near the edge of the streamwork.

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

Rectangular building shown on survey.

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

Northern of two 'Tinners Huts' shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7441 - Condition survey of the archaeological sites of Merrivale Training Area
• EDV7570 - Condition survey of Merrivale Range training area
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8713 - Merrivale Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey

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