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Summary

Vermin trap includes two lengths of drystone wall forming a V-shaped trap pointing towards a rock face. The position of the trap suggests that the rock face was intended to help encourage the vermin into the trapping area, which was originally sited at the point where the two lengths of walling meet. The northern wall measures 4.8m long, 0.5m wide, 0.5m high and is composed of orthostats. The southern wall is of rubble construction and measures 4.7m long, 0.8m wide and 0.3m high.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1014471: Vermin trap and length of reave 980m ESE of Trowlesworthy Warren House

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 56 SE 66
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/198/89
• Old SAM Ref: 22357
• Pastscape: 439294

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• VERMIN TRAP (Constructed, XVIII to XIX - 1701 AD to 1899 AD (Between))

Full description

Crossing, W., 1912 (1965), Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, 431 (Monograph). SDV320981.

Haynes, R. G., 1970, Vermin Traps and Rabbit Warrens on Dartmoor, 158, trap No. 35 (Article in Serial). SDV166302.

Trowlesworthy Warren SX 5770 6455. Haynes' vermin trap No. 35. Built against Little Trowlesworthy Tor; indistinct and obscured by fallen stone.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140340 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(05/04/1995) SX 5770 6453. Vermin trap includes two lengths of drystone wall forming a V-shaped trap pointing towards a rock face. The position of the trap suggests that the rock face was intended to help encourage the vermin into the trapping area, which was originally sited at the point where the two lengths of walling meet. The northern wall measures 4.8m long, 0.5m wide, 0.5m high and is composed of orthostats. The southern wall is of rubble construction and measures 4.7m long, 0.8m wide and 0.3m high.

Robertson, J. G., 1994, The Archaeology of the Upper Plym Valley (Post-Graduate Thesis). SDV139549.

Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape, 93, 102.384 (Report - non-specific). SDV143510.

Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J., 2002, Plym Valley survey (Report - Survey). SDV350782.

(16/02/2001) Recorded on survey layer. No specific detail seen.

Ridgers, H. + Ridgers, C., 2015, Of Varments and Vermin Traps, 6, No. 62 (Report - Assessment). SDV358632.

SX 57719 64539. Covered by fallen stones; two walls can still be seen amongst the rubble.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7369 - Survey of Granite Loading Bays at Trowlesworthy, Devon
• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey

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