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Summary

A chimney and shaft are depicted and annotated adjacent to two buildings on the Ordnance Survey 1880s 25inch First Edition map at Bottle Hill Tin Mine, Sparkwell. The location of the buildings and possible shaft are visible as an earthwork hollow or pit on aerial photographs of 1946, immediately to the south-east of a large crescent mound, presumably comprised of spoil, visible on visualisations derived from lidar data captured between 1998 and 2017.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX55NE/12/4

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CHIMNEY (Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD to 1880 AD (Between))
• SHAFT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1750 AD (Between))
• SPOIL HEAP (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

EDWARDS, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV137265.

Vis=12/7/1979 (edwards) shaft and buildings. Strode shaft stands at sx56405884 connected with buildings to s by flat rod gully running from sx56405883 to sx56435875. The remains of two stone structures marked on a 1851 os map at sx56415885 still stand e of the shaft. One was a rectangular building, the other a gully resembling a wheelpit in shape and measuring leng 10m, widt 2m (edwards).

RCHM APP 1985, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV169387.

Not visible on 1946 raf ap (rchm app 1985).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV169388.

Des=hemerdon survey(1979)/parish file.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/106G/UK/1190, RAF/106G/UK/1190 RP 3251-3252 27-FEB-1946 (Aerial Photograph). SDV363067.

An earthwork mound and hollow are visible as earthworks.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 1999-2017, Pan Government Agreement Aerial Photographs, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery SX5658 31-MAY-2016 (Aerial Photograph). SDV363087.

The earthworks are obscured by dense tree cover.

Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2019-2020, The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey. Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (AI&M, formerly NMP) (Interpretation). SDV362982.

A possible hollow or pit circa 20m in diameter is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 1946. The pit is situated within the curve of a large crescent mound up to 30m wide and 90m long.
The earthwork hollow corresponds with the location of buildings depicted on the Ordnance Survey 1880s 25inch First Edition map, annotated as chimney and shaft, immediately south-east of a D-shaped mound presumably comprised of spoil, and part of Bottle Hill Tin Mine.
The earthworks are obscured from view by dense tree cover on digital images derived from aerial photographs of 2016 and lidar coverage for this area is incomplete.
The earthwork hollow might be the same as that recorded as a possible area of openworks as MDV25238.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8098 - The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping (formerly NMP) Survey, Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (Ref: ACD2040)

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