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Summary

The ditch extends from a newtake wall on the northern boundary of Fox Tor Farm and runs more or less along the contour of the steep hillslope. It now terminates at a deep cutting on the edge of an extensive area of streamworkings. It is on average 0.5m deep and is heavily silted with, for much of its length, a bank on the downhill side; this bank is 1.8m and 0.7m high at the northern end and at the southern end survives as a well-constructed earthen bank with a 1m high revetment on the lower side.
The ditch does not extend beyond the newtake wall to the north nor into the streamworking area, which here might post-date it. It probably served as a drainage channel to carry from the C19th cultivated plots on the hillslope below.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SW122
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 912053
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SW/247

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• DRAINAGE DITCH (Constructed, XIX - 1801 AD (Between) to 1899 AD (Between))

Full description

National Monuments Record, 1969, NMR SX6272/1, 156 (Aerial Photograph). SDV214892.

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

Ditch visible, extending to SX 62977112, forming the north boundary to a farmstead.

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

(14/07/1988) SX 63237020 to SX 62977112. The ditch extends from a newtake wall on the northern boundary of Fox Tor Farm and runs more or less along the contour of the steep hillslope. It now terminates at a deep cutting on the edge of an extensive area of streamworkings.
It is on average 0.5m deep and is heavily silted with, for much of its length, a bank on the downhill side; this bank is 1.8m and 0.7m high at the northern end and at the southern end survives as a well-constructed earthen bank with a 1m high revetment on the lower side.
The ditch does not extend beyond the newtake wall to the north nor into the streamworking area, which here might post-date it. It probably served as a drainage channel to carry from the C19th cultivated plots on the hillslope below.

Devon County Council Photographic Unit, 1988, DAP/JW, 3-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDV214895.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8630 - Fox Tor Newtake Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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