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Summary

700 meter long section of the Eylesbarrow Watershed Reave scheduled as an individual section.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1011977: Part of Eylesbarrow Reave
• Scheduled Monument 1012281: Cairn adjacent to the south side of Eylesbarrow Reave
• SHINE: Section of the Eylesbarrow Reave, a Bronze Age boundary work across Ringmoor Down, and adjacent Bronze Age cairns

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/279
• Old SAM Ref: 10627
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• REAVE (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, 4209 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

Fleming, A., 1978, The Prehistoric Landscape of Dartmoor. Part 1: South Dartmoor, 97-123 (Article in Serial). SDV235265.

Balaam, N. D. + Smith, K. + Wainwright, G. J., 1982, The Shaugh Moor Project: Fourth Report - Environment, Context and Conclusion, 248-50 (Article in Serial). SDV145845.

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

Recorded on aerial photograph survey overlay.

Fleming, A., 1988, The Dartmoor Reaves: Investigating Prehistoric Land Divisions, 39,40,44,56,107 (Monograph). SDV229071.

Continuation of Eylesbarrow Reave running south-west, north-east across Ringmore Down. Other details: Figures 5, 22.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1991, Eylesbarrow watershed reave (Schedule Document). SDV346705.

Eylesbarrow Reave is a watershed reave which separates the watershed of the Plym from that of the Meavy, it extends from the Plym at Cadworthy Wood to the summit of Eylesbarrow, a distance of approximately 6 kilometres. Though the reave can be traced from end to end, there are now gaps along its length which result in its preservation in separate sections of unequal length.
This section runs across a spur on the 320 meter contour and down the north-east slope of Ringmoor Down and Gutter Tor for a distance of some 700 meters and consists of a stone and earth bank up to 0.75 meters in height and 3.0 meters in width. There are two cairns immediately on its south side. Other details: SAM: 10627.

Ordnance Survey, 2011, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV346129.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, UPRM-5 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(08/11/2019) Condition assessed as ?very good by volunteer recorders, although vegetation encroachment noted as heavy patches of gorse over a 50 yard stretch.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs (Photograph). SDV363073.

Featured photographed in November 2019.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

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

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