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Summary

Openwork gully extending from row of trial pits SX67NE/159. Visible on NMR 1977 aerial at SX 6528 7507.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1021049: Brimpts Mine, three prehistoric settlements and associated reaves 550m north west of Outer Huccaby Ring

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NE/159/14
• Old SAM Ref: 34461

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• OPEN CUT (Early Medieval to XIX - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

BIRD + HIRST, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV221965.

Brimpts north mine. Excavation running downhill from w side of engine shaft and incorporating an adit. The origin of this small cutting is uncertain. It probably was a small openwork (17c?) on a minor lode crossing the main lode just w of the engine shaft. In late 1851 the cutting facilitated the driving of an adit to join the main lode at the 5 fathom or adit level. The mine plan (dro 4672a/hs/r282c)shows the adit passage to be far from straight and this suggests the miners followed the soft ground of a cross-course rather than the straight line of a true cross-cut through granite. Normal practice was to discharge the water pumped from lower levels through the adit and this is probably the origin of the channel that continues downhill from the workings. A track leading away from the adit tail suggests the ore was brought out from the adit also. The adit mouth is now completely filled in (bird + hirst).

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV245439.

Aph=nmr sx6575/1/365-385(18/5/1977).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV245440.

Des=bird, r. + hirst, p. /(-/11/1996)b2/16/worksheets in smr.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV245441.

Des=bird, r. + hirst, p. /the brimpts tin mines/(dtrg)/(forthcoming).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV245442.

Dro=4672a/hs/r282c.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV245443.

Des=ancient monuments/(30/9/2003)/as above.

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

Openwork gully extending from row of trial pits SX67NE/159. Visible on NMR 1977 aerial at SX 6528 7507.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8634 - Brimpts Farm, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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