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Summary

A possible reave, which joins the Eylesbarrow Watershed Reave near the western end of Ringmoor Down, may have been contemporary or may have been later. It butt-joins the dominant reave at 90 degrees then runs to the NW roughly in the direction of Ringmoor Cottage. Its course runs over a large prehistoric cairn, on the summit of the ridge. Although the earthworks are eroded, it would appear that the bank post-dated the cairn. It is a somewhat diminutive earthwork of 2m wide by 0.3m high with traces of a ditch in places. The ditch is a possible clue that this feature was either re-purposed in the medieval period or perhaps had its origins in that later period.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE324
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1408412

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• REAVE (Early Bronze Age to Late Medieval - 2200 BC (Between) to 1539 AD (Between))

Full description

Probert, S., 2005, Ringmoor Training Area: Monument Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV363484.

(17/02/2005) SX 56136618 to SX 55816644. A short section of field boundary of uncertain origin. It runs north-west from the Eylesbarrow Reave at SX 56136618 over a Bronze Age cairn (438668) on the crest of Ringmoor Down and is then overlain by part of a medieval field system (1409366). It is visible as a turf-covered bank 1.4m wide and 0.3m high with a slight ditch adjacent to the northern side.

Probert, S. A. J., 2010, A Condition Survey of the Archaeological Sites of Ringmoor, Dartmoor Training Area (Report - Survey). SDV360517.

Newman, P., 2018, Archaeological Sites within Ringmoor Training Area, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: A condition survey on behalf of Defence Infrastructure Organisation (Report - Survey). SDV361636.

Newman, P., 2022, Ringmoor Down Premier Archaeological Landscape Dartmoor National Park, Devon. A new survey, Table 1 (Report - Survey). SDV365490.

A possible reave running SE from Ringmoor Cottage. SX 55958 66318. A possible reave, which joins the Eylesbarrow Watershed Reave near the western end of Ringmoor Down, may have been contemporary or may have been later. It butt-joins the dominant reave at 90 degrees then runs to the NW roughly in the direction of Ringmoor Cottage. Its course runs over a large prehistoric cairn, on the summit of the ridge. Although the earthworks are eroded, it would appear that the bank post-dated the cairn. It is a somewhat diminutive earthwork of 2m wide by 0.3m high with traces of a ditch in places. The ditch is a possible clue that this feature was either re-purposed in the medieval period or perhaps had its origins in that later period.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8227 - Ringmoor Training Area: Monument Baseline Condition Survey
• EDV7443 - Condition survey of archaeological sites in Ringmoor Training Area
• EDV7569 - Condition survey of Ringmoor Down training area
• EDV8917 - Survey of the archaeological features on Ringmoor Down

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