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Summary

Tinners' cache in the north wall of enclosed hut circle settlement south of Middle Brook of medieval or later date recorded by the Ordnance Survey, as well as in the South Brent parish checklist (both 1977). The structure measures 3 metres by 1.5 metres with dry strone walling, 0.8 metres high, 0.6 metres thick. It is partially roofed by a large slab of granite and the entrance is now blocked by a pile of small stones.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1004557: Enclosures and hut circles at Petre's Pits Bottom

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SE113
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442096
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SE/486
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SE/80/1
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX66SE113
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX66SE36

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• TINNERS CACHE (Constructed, Early Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1066 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX66SE113 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV162734.

(23/12/1977) At SX 66166347 in the wall of an enclosed settlement is a probable tinners' cache. The structure measures 3 metres by 1.5 metres with dry strone walling, 0.8 metres high, 0.6 metres thick. It is partially roofed by a large slab of granite and the entrance is now blocked by a pile of small stones. Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX66SE36 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV363978.

(23/12/1977) a probable tinner's cache is located in the wall at SX 66166347.

Robinson, R., 1977-1979, South Brent Parish Checklist (Worksheet). SDV151046.

(September 1977) SX 6618 6347 Part of the pound wall adjacent to the Middle Brook appears to have been rebuilt in historical times to give an irregular roughly rectangular building measuring about 2 metres by 1 metre. There are signs that the roof may have been corbelled but it is now collapsed and its impossible to be sure. It may have been a small tinners' building.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Not recorded in project.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 107, Map 57, Figure 57.6 (Monograph). SDV337765.

'Middle Brook Upper enclosure' has a small chamber 2 metres long hollowed out of the northern wall which was presumably a tinners' cache.

Historic England, 2020, National Heritage List for England, 1004557 (National Heritage List for England). SDV363414.

This northern enclosure survives as a roughly oval enclosure containing up to five stone hut circles and a small tinners' cache built into the northern wall of the enclosure.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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