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Summary

Two very decayed upright timber posts, approximately 2m tall, on Pudsham Down are the last survivors from a much larger group of anti-glider poles erected here during World War II.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Remains of a Bronze Age reave system fossilised in the fields west of Ruddycleave; part of a wider system that preserves potential links to nearby prehistoric reave systems

Other References/Statuses

• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• POLE (World War II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Full description

Newman, P., 2015, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, 61, fig 17 (Report - Survey). SDV359145.

Marked as MDV113192 in report.

Newman, P., 2015, Rippon Tor survey - final list of previously unrecorded HER sites (Un-published). SDV359041.

Two very decayed upright timber posts, approximately 2 metres tall, on Pudsham Down at SX73105 74686are the last survivors from a much larger group of anti-glider poles erected here during World War II. Condition is declining.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6836 - Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape survey

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