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Summary

A short section of a silted leat channel extends 150 E from Fernworthy Forest. The channel measures 1.0m wide and is a maximum of 0.35m deep with a bank on its downslope side 1.1m wide and 0.4m high. Its course becomes lost in the marshy ground on the W bank of the Longstone Brook. It probably fed the extensive tinworkings (SX 68 NE 165) centred on the Longstone Brook.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68SE173
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 918067

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit, S. Probert (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(05/02/1992) SX 65758482 to SX 65898486. A short section of a silted leat channel extends 150 E from Fernworthy Forest.
The channel measures 1.0m wide and is a maximum of 0.35m deep with a bank on its downslope side 1.1m wide and 0.4m high. Its course becomes lost in the marshy ground on the W bank of the Longstone Brook.
It probably fed the extensive tinworkings (SX 68 NE 165) centred on the Longstone Brook.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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