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Summary

Shafts pits and gullies on the northern slope of Gutter Tor represent attempts to extract tin at this location. An alignment of four, roughly circular flat-topped mounds are the spoil heaps from blocked shafts, the latter being visible as shallow hollows on top of the mounds. The mounds have diameters of 12m to 16m and are up to 1.9m high. These are the surface expression of underground mining activity, probably in the 18th to 19th centuries. Further up the slope a 33m-long gully, and associated spoil heap may be earlier evidence of surface working.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE321
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1408402
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/454

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ADIT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD (Between) to 1750 AD (Between))
• EXTRACTIVE PIT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD (Between) to 1750 AD (Between))
• SHAFT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD (Between) to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

National Monuments Record, 1976, SX5767, 1/416 (Aerial Photograph). SDV231145.

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

Group of trial pits on north slope of Ringmoor Down visible on 1976 aerial photograph.

Probert, S., 2005, Ringmoor Training Area: Monument Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV363484.

(16/02/2005) Centred SX 57476705. Shafts, pits and possible adits on the north-western flank of Gutter Tor. A roughly east to west line of extractive features lie at the foot of the north-western flank of Gutter Tor. The majority of the features are large infilled shafts in the region of 7 to 12m in diameter and up to 1.4m deep though some smaller pits lie between. Two shallow north to south oriented channels terminate at SX 57526701 and SX 57516719 and may mark the locations of blocked adits. There are no buildings associated with these remains.

Probert, S. A. J., 2010, A Condition Survey of the Archaeological Sites of Ringmoor, Dartmoor Training Area (Report - Survey). SDV360517.

Newman, P., 2018, Archaeological Sites within Ringmoor Training Area, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: A condition survey on behalf of Defence Infrastructure Organisation (Report - Survey). SDV361636.

Newman, P., 2022, Ringmoor Down Premier Archaeological Landscape Dartmoor National Park, Devon. A new survey, Table 1 (Report - Survey). SDV365490.

Shafts pits and gullies north of Gutter Tor. SX 57510 67085. Shafts pits and gullies on the northern slope of Gutter Tor represent attempts to extract tin at this location. An alignment of four, roughly circular flat-topped mounds are the spoil heaps from blocked shafts, the latter being visible as shallow hollows on top of the mounds. The mounds have diameters of 12m to 16m and are up to 1.9m high. These are the surface expression of underground mining activity, probably in the 18th to 19th centuries. Further up the slope a 33m-long gully, and associated spoil heap may be earlier evidence of surface working.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

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
• EDV8917 - Survey of the archaeological features on Ringmoor Down

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