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Summary

A shallow tin openwork and pitworks on a slope to the south of Drivage Bottom, of probable late or post-medieval date. The openwork, comprises a 70m-long gully with a 90 degree kink in the centre. The gully is up to 7.5m wide but only 2 - 3m deep. Linear spoil heaps run along the outside of the gully in places. The pitworks are mainly in an alignment although others are more scattered. The largest pit is 6.3m diameter and 2m deep and the smallest examples are 2m diameter by as little as 0.3m deep. All the pits have spoil heaps close by. The smaller pits were probably used for prospecting whereas the larger examples are more likely to have been used for extraction.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE357
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1446913

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• EXTRACTIVE PIT (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))
• PROSPECTING PIT (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))
• TIN WORKS (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

Newman, P., 2007, Cramber Tor Training Area Monument Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV348210.

(01/08/2006) A shallow tin openwork and pitworks on a slope to the south of Drivage Bottom, of probable late or post-medieval date. The openwork, comprises a 70m-long gully with a 90 degree kink in the centre. The gully is up to 7.5m wide but only 2 - 3m deep. Linear spoil heaps run along the outside of the gully in places. The pitworks are mainly in an alignment although others are more scattered. The largest pit is 6.3m diameter and 2m deep and the smallest examples are 2m diameter by as little as 0.3m deep. All the pits have spoil heaps close by. The smaller pits were probably used for prospecting whereas the larger examples are more likely to have been used for extraction.

Fletcher, M. J., 2007-2008, Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project (Report - Survey). SDV359195.

Probert, S., 2008, Follow-Up Works to Cramber Tor Archaeological Baseline Condition Survey, Dartmoor Training Area (Report - Survey). SDV351304.

Greeves, T., 2012, Cramber Tor Training Area. Monument Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV350251.

Probert, S. A. J., 2017, A Condition Survey of the Archaeological Sites of the Cramber Tor Training Area, Devon, 2017 (Report - Survey). SDV360392.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6034 - Monument Condition Survey in Cramber Tor Training Area
• EDV6152 - Follow-up Works to Threatened Sites in the Cramber Tor Training Area
• EDV6153 - Monument Baseline Condition Survey in the Cramber Tor Training Area
• EDV7382 - Condition Survey of the Cramber Tor Training Area

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