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Summary

Moorland stone slab with a square socket cut through near the top located at Tolchmoor Gate and once used as a gate pier

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: 439447
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/94
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX56SE120

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• GATE PIER (Unknown date)

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

'Tolchmoor Gate' shown on 19th century map.

Tyler, F. C., 1932 - 1933, Stones on Dartmoor., 114 (Article in Serial). SDV233336.

Author thinks it is an 'ancient' stone and the gatepost is a secondary usage. Other details: Plate.

Beckerlegge, J. J., 1936, Fifth Report of the Plymouth and District Branch, 152 (Article in Serial). SDV343523.

Holed stone by the side of the road at Tolchmoor gate. Formerly used for barring the road. When the road was widened recently this stone was set further back.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977 - 1980, SX56SE120 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV343525.

Tolchmoor Gate holed stone and local field walls been bulldozed in 1980 into heaps of rubble in advance of china clay workings.

Greeves, T. A. P., 1980, Gatepost at Tolchmoor Gate (Personal Comment). SDV343527.

This stone has been uprooted once more in connection with roadworks and is said to be replaced nearby.

Greeves, T. A. P., 1981, Moorland stone at Tolchmoor Gate (Personal Comment). SDV343528.

The holed stone had been resited on the north side of road and on west side of the hedgebank at SX58066163 and set back some distance from the road edge.

National Monuments Record, 2002, 439447 (National Monuments Record Database). SDV343530.

An upright moorland slab with a square socket cut through its face near the top. It is 1.2 metres high and a maximum 1.3 metres by 0.5 metres at its base. The 0.1 metre square socket is designed to hold a timber spar. It was moved to its present position on a wide roadside verge when the road was widened.

Fletcher, M., 2002, The Archaeological Landscape of Crownhill Down and Ridding Down: Survey Report (Report - Survey). SDV343412.

Other details: Figure 3 and Crownhill Down Survey.

Richards, A., 2009, Gatepost at Tolchmoor Gate (Personal Comment). SDV343532.

There are two Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Cards with the number SX56SE120.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4559 - Archaeological Landscape of Crownhill Down and Riddding Down

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