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Summary

Probable tinners' hut lying at the head of a tributary of the Blackbrook River on the edge of a streamworks at Black Dunghill. Site appears to have been reused as a shelter or observation post by the military.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthwork remains of streamworking along a tributary of the Blackbrook River and tinners' hut at Black Dunghill

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57NE113
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1065646
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• TINNERS HUT (Built, Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1750 AD (Between))
• OBSERVATION POST (Built, XX - 1901 AD? to 2000 AD (Between))

Full description

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

(26/09/1994) A possible tinners hut lies at the head of an un-named tributary of the Blackbrook River at SX58497760, on the edge of a small area of streamworks (MDV29179). It measures 2.9 metres (north-east by south-west) by 2.8 metres. The walls, built of granite blocks, stand up to six courses high and measure 0.8 metres wide and up to 1.0 metre high. The south-western wall has collapsed; a possible entrance may lie in the south-western corner.
The collapse of the wall may be due to the possible re-use of the site as a shelter or observation post by the military; a piece of angle iron is fixed into the south-eastern wall corner.

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

(10/08/2004) Walls mainly stable though sheep scrapes are evident on the exterior bank which reinforces the walls.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Structure is visible on the aerial photography.

Probert, S. A. J., 2010, A Condition Survey of the Archaeological Sites of Merrivale Range, Dartmoor Training Area (Report - Survey). SDV360515.

Walls mainly stable though sheep scrapes are evident on the exterior bank which reinforces the walls.

Ordnance Survey, 2012, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV348725.

Outline of the building depicted on the modern mapping.

Newman, P., 2018, Archaeological Sites within Merrivale Training Area, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: A condition survey on behalf of Defence Infrastructure Organisation (Report - Survey). SDV361635.

A ruined rectangular tinners' hut in an area of tin streamworks SE of Blackbrook Head.

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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