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| HER Number: | MDV126760 |
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| Name: | Quarry pit on Walkhampton Common, Walkhampton |
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Summary
A quarry pit located within an abandoned field system (MDV25925) on Walkhampton Common, 490 metres north-east of Horseyeat. The horseshoe shaped pit cuts into the slope of the field and measures 10 metres by 10 metres
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 549 704 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX57SW |
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| Admin Area | Dartmoor National Park |
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| Civil Parish | Walkhampton |
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| District | West Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | WALKHAMPTON |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses: none recorded
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- EXTRACTIVE PIT (Constructed, XVIII to XIX - 1751 AD (Between) to 1900 AD (Between))
- QUARRY (Constructed, XVIII to XIX - 1751 AD (Between) to 1900 AD (Between))
Full description
Environment Agency WMS, 1998-2016, LiDAR DTM data JPEG image (1m resolution) (Cartographic). SDV360208.
Visible on the lidar data.
Newman, P., 2019, An Archaeological Survey of an area of Walkhampton Common, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, Appendix, Figure 6 (Report - Survey). SDV363478.
A quarry pit located within an abandoned field system (MDV25925) on Walkhampton Common, 490 metres north-east of Horseyeat. The horseshoe shaped pit cuts into the slope of the field and measures 10 metres by 10 metres. A small mound of probable overburden sits 12 metres to the south-west. No quarry faces survive so the pit may have been used as a source of aggregate or gravel. All surfaces of the feature are now smoothed and turf covered, suggesting it has been disused for a long but imprecise period of time.
Newman, P., 2019, New sites for the HER (Correspondence). SDV363306.
SX 54931 70491 A quarry pit located within an abandoned field system (MDV25925) on Walkhampton Common, 490m north-east of Horseyeat. The horseshoe shaped pit cuts into the slope of the field and measures 10m by 10m. A small mound of probable overburden sits 12m to the south-west. No quarry faces survive so the pit may have been used as a source of aggregate or gravel. All surfaces of the feature are now smoothed and turf covered, suggesting it has been disused for a long but imprecise period of time.
Newman, P., 2019-2020, Survey data from various sites on Dartmoor (Cartographic). SDV363779.
Features marked on GIS layers.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV360208 | Cartographic: Environment Agency WMS. 1998-2016. LiDAR DTM data JPEG image (1m resolution). Environment Agency LiDAR data. Digital. |
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| SDV363779 | Cartographic: Newman, P.. 2019-2020. Survey data from various sites on Dartmoor. GIS ShapeFile. Digital. [Mapped features: #139679 ; #139680 ] |
Associated Monuments
| MDV25925 | Related to: Rectilinear field system south-west of Sharpitor, Walkhampton (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- EDV8225 - Survey of an area of Walkhampton CommonSurvey of an area of Walkhampton Common
- EDV8351 - Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project
| Date Last Edited: | Dec 12 2022 2:57PM |
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