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Summary

Area of trial pits extending for approximately 420 metres to the west of Middle Mire

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66NW99
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1063674
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NW/101

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• EXTRACTIVE PIT (Constructed, Early Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1066 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))
• TIN WORKS (Constructed, Early Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1066 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946, CPE/UK 1890, 4278 (Aerial Photograph). SDV140289.

Photograph taken on 10th December 1946.

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

Area of trial pits extends to SX63406700.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1993-1998, Dartmoor Royal Forest Project, S. Probert (Report - Survey). SDV346608.

(10/12/1994) Centred SX 63386694. Several lines of shallow tin pits running roughly east to west on the crest of the ridge separating Dry Lake from Wollake. The pits are small, in the region of 3.0m in diameter, and around 0.5m deep. They appear to be associated with a lode pursued by an openwork running east from Wollake (SX 66 NW 113) and a streamwork (part of SX 66 NW 72) branching west from Dry Lake.

Newman, P., 2018, Erme Valley Survey data (GIS and Excel spreadsheet) (Cartographic). SDV361913.

Area covered by features shown on survey.

Newman, P., 2018, The Upper Erme Valley, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: An Archaeological Survey, Appendix 1 (Report - Survey). SDV362921.

Two hectares of tin streamworks and prospecting pits branching off the eastern side of Blacklane Brook. The deposits worked here represent an extension of those worked on the west side of the brook (MDV25039). The interior working area contains the usual evidence of low linear spoil heaps, pits and channels, but as the working extends to the east the streamworking, makes way for a linear cluster of prospecting or trial pits. The approximately circular trial pits are up to 5 metres diameter and 1 to 2 metres deep, though some larger examples may be shallow shafts. Each pit has a small collar of spoil on the downslope side. The pits and streamworks have not been dated but are likely to be post-medieval.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8082 - Survey of the Upper Erme Valley
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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