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Summary

Field named as Wear Field on the 1838 Tithe Apportionment, its name relating to the weir on the River Dart nearby. The field may have been part of an open or common field system during the medieval and post-medieval period and it is suggested that the small triangular piece of land to the north was a stock funnel. The northern boundry of the field, which is also a parish boundary, could potentially be medieval in date.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD BOUNDARY (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD)
• WEIR (XIX - 1801 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

South West Heritage Trust, 1838-1848, Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments (Cartographic). SDV359954.

Field named as Wear Field on the Dartington Tithe Apportionment (plot 922).

Devon County Council, 1838-1848, Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848 (Cartographic). SDV349431.

The map shows the boundary between the parishes of Dartington and Totnes running along the eastern and northern sides of the field.

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Field shown with a building in the south-west corner.

Green, T. + Morris, B., 2010, End Field, Land Adjacent to Dartington Lane, Totnes, Devon: Results of an Archaeological Assessment (Report - Assessment). SDV352012.

Historically part of a holding called Puddaven. At the time of the 1838 Tithe Apportionment the field was owned by John Toms and tenanted by Edward Holberton. It is numbered 922 and named as Wear Field and was used at that time for pasture. Two fields nearby also have weir field names, drawing attention to the weir on the River Dart close by. The small field adjoining in the north corner (plot 921) is called Allotment and it is suggested that it originated as a stock funnel, a common feature of Devon medieval and post medieval pastoral management. Wear Field may have been part of an open or common field system at that time. The boundary with Dartington Lane and the small triangle of woodland to the north may, therefore, be medieval in origin.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8243 - Historical and archaeological assessment of End Field, Dartington Lane, Totnes, Devon

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