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Summary

Roughtor Parallel Reave runs some 700 metres from the Eylesbarrow watershed reave at SX 58176774 towards Roughtor Plantation at SX 57846834. It consists of a bank with traces of orthostatic facing and a ditch, which may be later in date, on its east side. A large medieval earthwork bank which may run along the course of a former Bronze Age reave. The bank is 4m wide by 1m high. It has traces of orthostatic facing and a ditch, which may be later in date, on its east side.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1010697: Roughtor parallel reave

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE199
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 619136
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/281
• Old SAM Ref: 10746

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, 4352 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

National Monuments Record, 1978, SX5768, SX5678/1/278-280 (Aerial Photograph). SDV233641.

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

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

Reave forming a right angled junction with main Eylesbarrow reave (MDV48901). Visible from SX57806842 to SX58196777. Offshoot of reave to west at SX57946820.

Fleming, A., 1988, The Dartmoor Reaves: Investigating Prehistoric Land Divisions (Monograph). SDV229071.

Cross reave meeting Eylesbarrow terminal reave. Roughtor reave.

Wessex Archaeology, 2002, Cramber Tor Training Area Rapid Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV354588.

Cramber Tor Survey 2002, site WA024.

Newman, P., 2006, Cramber Tor Training Area Archaeological Field Investigation (Report - Survey). SDV233640.

(01/08/2006) A large earthwork bank of probable medieval date which may run along the course of a former Bronze Age reave. The bank is 4m wide by 1m high. It extends from the Outcombe enclosures running SSE to meet the Eylesbarrow reave at SX 5817 6774. The feature has been breached in several places.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Clearly visible on the aerial photography.

English Heritage, 2013, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV350785.

Roughtor parallel reave runs some 700m from the Eylesbarrow watershed reave at SX 58176774 towards Roughtor Plantation at SX 57846834. It consists of a bank 4.0m wide by 1.0m high with traces of orthostatic facing and a ditch, which may be later in date, on its east side Scheduled Devon 10746.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, UP-DZ 4 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

Visited 21/01/2020. Overall condition moderate. Photo x2 taken.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs, UP-DZ 4 (Photograph). SDV363073.

Photo 1: View looking 140° showing grass/moss and bracken cover with occasional bracken outcrops. Photo 2: View looking 000° showing grass/moss and bracken cover.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7382 - Condition Survey of the Cramber Tor Training Area
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey: EH Project (Feb 2001 - Dec 2002)
• EDV8711 - Condition Survey of the Cramber Tor Training Area

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