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Summary

This now dry pot water leat for Hartyland was originally taken off from near the source of a small western tributary of the Stannon Brook, in a rather marshy wet hollow of rough grassland, at SX 64428058. It flowed in a generally SSE direction almost parallel to the tributary till it met an enclosure wall at SX 64568008 where a well preserved section 1.3m wide is cut into the E-facing slope to a depth of about 1m. It has a good bank on its E side 2m wide and 0.5m high. Passing under two lintels in field walls it then proceeds SSW towards Hartyland, evident as a much infilled ditch some 2m wide and 0.2m deep, cut into the slope on the immediate W side of a field wall. It continues in a similar state to Hartyland (SX 64397949) and terminates on the East Dart River at SX 64297946.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthwork remains of part of the Bronze Age parallel reave system as well as medieval ridge and furrow and leat supplying Hartyland Farm

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NW77
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 621593
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SW/94

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1995, 4365-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDV224714.

Greeves, T. A. P., 1983, Middle Merripit Survey Drawing (Plan - measured). SDV321106.

A leat runs from SX 64388064 to SX 64327946.

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

Clearly visible on 1947 RAF aerial image. Leat depicted but not described

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

(03/07/1989) This now dry pot water leat for Hartyland was originally taken off from near the source of a small western tributary of the Stannon Brook, in a rather marshy wet hollow of rough grassland, at SX 64428058 about 370m OD.
It flowed in a generally SSE direction almost parallel to the tributary till it met an enclosure wall at SX 64568008 where a well preserved section 1.3m wide is cut into the E-facing slope to a depth of about 1m. It has a good bank on its E side 2m wide and 0.5m high. Passing under two lintels in field walls it then proceeds SSW towards Hartyland, evident as a much infilled ditch some 2m wide and 0.2m deep, cut into the slope on the immediate W side of a field wall. It continues in a similar state to Hartyland (SX 64397949) and terminates on the East Dart River at SX 64297946.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8648 - Middle Merripit Farm, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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